{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-framework-act-1998-commencement-no-7-and-saving-and-transitional-provisions-order-1999/schedule-6/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-framework-act-1998-commencement-no-7-and-saving-and-transitional-provisions-order-1999/schedule-6/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2323",
  "legislation_title": "The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (Commencement No. 7 and Saving and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-framework-act-1998-commencement-no-7-and-saving-and-transitional-provisions-order-1999",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Exclusion of pupils",
  "text": "(1) In this paragraph “relevant appeal” means an appeal against a decision or direction relating to the permanent exclusion of a pupil from a school which—\n(a) by virtue of paragraph 2 above is required to be considered by an appeal committee constituted—\n(i) in accordance with Part I of Schedule 33 to the 1996 Act, or\n(ii) for the purposes of Schedule 23 to the 1996 Act; and\n(b) has not been determined by such a committee before 1st September 1999.\n(2) Where a committee as so constituted have first met to consider a relevant appeal before 1st September 1999, the committee may proceed to determine the appeal on or after that date irrespective of whether the committee includes a person—\n(a) who before that date was eligible for membership of the committee by virtue of being a governor of the school, but\n(b) who, with effect from that date, ceases to be (or is no longer eligible to be) a governor of the school by virtue of any provision of, or made under, the 1998 Act.\n(3) However such a person shall not be eligible for membership of a committee referred to in sub-paragraph (1) where the committee first meets to determine a relevant appeal on or after 1st September 1999.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2323/schedule/6/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:03:54.158263+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}