{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/schools-general-scotland-regulations-1975/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/schools-general-scotland-regulations-1975/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/1135",
  "legislation_title": "The Schools General (Scotland) Regulations 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/schools-general-scotland-regulations-1975",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Admission to and exclusion from schools",
  "text": "In discharging their functions under the Education (Scotland) Act 1980, an education authority shall not exclude a pupil from a school under their management to which he has been admitted, except where—\n(a) they are of the opinion that the parent of the pupil refuses or fails to comply, or to allow the pupil to comply, with the rules, regulations, or disciplinary requirements of the school ; or\n(b) they consider that in all the circumstances to allow the pupil to continue his attendance at the school would be likely to be seriously detrimental to order and discipline in the school or the educational well-being of the pupils there.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 substituted (15.2.1982) by The Schools General (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982/56), regs. 1, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4 renumbered as reg. 4(a) (5.4.1983) by The Schools General (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982/1735), regs. 1, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 4(b) and word added (5.4.1983) by The Schools General (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982/1735), regs. 1, 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/1135/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:05:30.248953+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."
}