Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Education (Pupil Registration) Regulations 1995 in relation to Wales.

The effect of regulation 5, in the case of a pupil who is registered as a pupil at more than one school (except one who has no fixed abode because of the itinerant nature of the pupil’s parent’s trade or business), is to change the way the pupil’s absence from one of those schools on account of his attendance at another such school is recorded in a school’s attendance register. In these circumstances the pupil’s absence will be recorded as an approved educational activity rather than as an authorised absence.

Regulation 6 takes account of the amendment of section 25 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 by regulation 5 of the Children (Protection at Work) Regulations 1998.

Regulation 7 takes account of the provisions in the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 in relation to when the permanent exclusion of a pupil takes effect.