Section 20 Amendments to section 444 of the Education Act 1996I1

Section 444 of the Education Act 1996 (school attendance) is amended as follows.

For subsection (4) substitute —

“(4)

The child is not to be taken to have failed to attend regularly at the school if the parent proves that the local authority have failed to discharge—

(a)

a duty to make transport arrangements in relation to the child under section 3 of the Learner Travel (Wales) Measure 2008, or

(b)

a duty to make travel arrangements in relation to the child under section 4 of that Measure.”

In subsection (5) for “subsections (3D) and (4)” substitute “ subsection (3D) ”.