# Learner Travel (Wales) Measure 2008, Section 20: Amendments to section 444 of the Education Act 1996


(1) Section 444 of the Education Act 1996 (school attendance) is amended as follows.
(2) 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.”
(3) In subsection (5) for “subsections (3D) and (4)” substitute “ subsection (3D) ”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/mwa/2008/2/section/20 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/learner-travel-wales-measure-2008/section-20
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