{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-pupil-registration-wales-regulations-2010/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-pupil-registration-wales-regulations-2010/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2010/1954",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Pupil Registration) (Wales) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-pupil-registration-wales-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Leave of absence",
  "text": "(1) Leave of absence may only be granted by a person authorised in that behalf by the proprietor of the school.\n(2) Leave of absence must not be granted to enable a pupil to undertake employment (whether paid or unpaid) during school hours except—\n(a) employment for the purpose of taking part in a performance within the meaning of section 37 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1963 under the authority of a licence granted by the local authority under that section; or\n(b) employment abroad for a purpose mentioned in section 25 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 where a licence has been granted under that section by a justice of the peace.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4), on application made by a parent with whom the pupil normally resides, a pupil may be granted leave of absence from the school to enable the pupil to go away on holiday.\n(4) Save in exceptional circumstances, a pupil must not in pursuance of paragraph (3) be granted more than ten school days leave of absence in any school year.\n(5) This regulation applies only in relation to a maintained school and a special school not maintained by a local authority.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 1.9.2010, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1963 c. 37; amended by S.I. 1998/276, paragraph 32 of Schedule 6 to the Licensing Act 2003 (c. 17), paragraph 6 of Schedule 20 to the Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42) and paragraph 10 of Schedule 37 to the Education Act 1996 (c. 56)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1933 c. 12; amended by S.I. 1998/276, paragraph 3 of Schedule 13 to the Children Act 1989 (c. 41), paragraph 10 of Part 3 of Schedule 3 to the Employment Act 1989 (c. 38), paragraph 7 of Schedule 5 to the Children and Young Persons Act 1963 and by paragraph 73 of Schedule 8 to the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2010/1954/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:53:10.915240+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}