Regulation 3 Amendment of the Pupils' Registration Regulations 1956

There shall be substituted for regulation 4^f1 of those Regulations—

“Deletions from Admission Register

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(1)

The following grounds are hereby prescribed as those on which the name of a pupil of compulsory school age is to be deleted from the Admission Register—

(a)

where the pupil is registered at the school in accordance with the requirements of a school attendance order, that another school is substituted for that named in the order or the order is revoked on the ground that arrangements have been made for the child to receive efficient full-time education suitable to his age, ability and aptitude otherwise than at school;

(b)

except as provided in regulation 4A below, in a case not falling within sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph, that he has been registered as a pupil of another school;

(c)

in a case not falling within sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph, that he has ceased to attend the school at which he is registered and his parent has satisfied the Authority that he is receiving efficient full-time education suitable to his age, ability and aptitude otherwise than by attendance at school;

(d)

except in the case of a boarder, that his ordinary residence has been transferred to a place whence the school at which he is registered is not accessible with reasonable facility;

(e)

that he is certified by the school medical officer as unlikely to be in a fit state of health to attend school before becoming legally exempt from the obligation so as to attend;

(f)

that he has been continuously absent from school for a period of not less than four weeks and the proprietor of the school has failed, after reasonable enquiry, to obtain information of the cause of absence;

(g)

that the proprietor has ascertained that the pupil had died;

(h)

that he will cease to be of compulsory school age before the school next meets and intends to discontinue in attendance thereat;

(i)

in the case of a boarder, or of a pupil at a school other than a maintained school, that he has ceased to be a pupil of the school;

(j)

where the pupil is registered at a maintained school, that he has been permanently excluded from the school; or

(k)

having been admitted to the school for nursery education, he has not on completing such education transfered to a reception class at the school:

• Provided that in a case not covered by sub-paragraph (a), (g) or (j) of this paragraph, or regulation 4A below, the name of a child who has under arrangements made by an Authority become a registered pupil at a special school shall not be removed from the Admission Register of that school without the consent of that Authority or, if that Authority refuse to give consent, without a direction of the Secretary of State.

(2)

The following grounds are hereby prescribed as those on which the name of a pupil not of compulsory school age is to be deleted from the Admission Register—

(a)

that he has ceased to attend the school, or, in the case of a boarder, that he has ceased to be a pupil of the school;

(b)

that he has been continuously absent from the school for a period of not less that four weeks and the proprietor of the school has failed, after reasonable enquiry, to obtain information of the cause of absence;

(c)

that the proprietor has ascertained that the pupil has died;

(d)

having been admitted to the school for nursery education, he has not on completing such education transferred to a reception class at the school; or

(e)

where the pupil is registered at a maintained school, that he has been permanently excluded from the school.

(3)

For the purposes of this regulation—

(a)

“maintained school” means a school maintained by an Authority, a grant-maintained school or a grant-maintained special school;

(b)

“reception class” means a class in which education is provided which is suitable to the requirements of pupils aged five and any pupils under or over the age whom it is expedient to educate together with pupils of that age;

(c)

children are to be regarded as having been admitted to a school for nursery education if they were placed on admission in a nursery class; and

(d)

the permanent exclusion of a pupil does not take effect until—

(i)

any review under the articles of government of the decision to exclude him has been completed, and

(ii)

either any time for appealing under section 26 of the Education (No. 2) Act 1986^f2 or those articles has expired without such an appeal being made or such an appeal has been finally concluded.”.