# The Education (School and Placing Information) (Scotland) Amendment, Etc., Regulations 1993, Regulation 7: Consequential amendment to the Schools General (Scotland) Regulations 1975


Paragraph 5 (attendance register) of Schedule 1 to the Schools General (Scotland) Regulations 1975 shall be amended as follows:–
(a) 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
(b) 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, 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.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1604/regulation/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-and-placing-information-scotland-amendment-etc-regulations-1993/regulation-7
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