Regulation 7 Consequential amendment to the Schools General (Scotland) Regulations 1975

in sub-paragraph (1), there shall be inserted before the end–

• “, and, except in the case of pupils in stage S6, whether such absence is authorised or unauthorised”; and

for sub-paragraph (2), there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph:–

“(2)

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), a pupil’s absence shall be recorded as authorised where the education authority consider that he is absent with reasonable excuse within the meaning of section 42 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980^f2, or is in receipt of a current exemption from school attendance under section 34 of that Act, but otherwise such absence shall be recorded as unauthorised.”.