# The Schools General (Scotland) Regulations 1975, Regulation 6: Closure of schools on advice of medical officer

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Where a health board competent person advises an education authority that, in order to prevent the spread of disease or other danger to health, a school under their management should be closed temporarily or that certain pupils should be excluded from that school for a specified time or, where that school is a boarding school, that the pupils should be confined to the school premises for a specified time, the education authority shall forthwith close that school or exclude or confine the said pupils, as the case may be, accordingly.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/1135/regulation/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/schools-general-scotland-regulations-1975/regulation-6
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