The Education (Pupil Registration) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001
W.S.I. 2001/1109 · Made 15 March 2001 · Extends to England and Wales
EDUCATION, WALES
Made 15th March 2001
Coming into force 1st September 2001
In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 434(1) and (3) and 551 of the Education Act 1996f1, and now vested in the National Assembly for Walesf2, the National Assembly for Wales makes the following Regulations:
Annotations to the whole text
Footnotes
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1996 c. 56. See the definition of “prescribed” and “regulations” in section 579 (1).
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The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 434 and 551 of the Education Act 1996 were, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) to which there are amendments not relevant to these regulations.
Contents
- 1Citation, commencement and application Not yet in force
- 2Citation, commencement and application Not yet in force
- 3Amendment Not yet in force
- 4Amendment Not yet in force
- 5Amendment Not yet in force
- 6Amendment Not yet in force
- 7Amendment Not yet in force
- 8Amendment Not yet in force
- Signature
- Explanatory note
1Citation, commencement and applicationI1
These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Pupil Registration) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st September 2001.
2Citation, commencement and applicationI1
These Regulations apply to Wales only.
3AmendmentI1
The Education (Pupil Registration) Regulations 1995f1 shall be amended as follows in relation to Wales.
4AmendmentI1
For regulation 2 (Interpretation) there shall be substituted the following regulation—
“Interpretation
2In these Regulations—
“the 1998 Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998f1;
“maintained school” means a school maintained by a local education authority;
“proprietor” in relation to a school, means the person or body of persons responsible for the management of the school (so that, in relation to a community, foundation or voluntary school, or community or foundation special school, it means the governing body);
“the relevant person” means—
- (a)
in relation to a pupil under the age of 18, a parent of the pupil;
- (b)
in relation to a pupil who has attained that age, the pupil.”.
5AmendmentI1
In regulation 7 (Contents of the Attendance Register)—
in paragraph (3)(c), for the words “who” to “because” there shall be substituted “to whom regulation 10(3A) applies,”;
for paragraph (4A)f1 there shall be substituted the following—
“(4A)An approved educational activity is either—
(a)an activity which takes place outside the school premises and which is—
(i)approved by a person authorised in that behalf by the proprietor of the school;
(ii)of an educational nature, including work experience under section 560 of the Education Act 1996 and a sporting activity; and
(iii)supervised by a person authorised in that behalf by the proprietor or the head teacher of the school; or
(b)in the case of a pupil, other than a pupil to whom regulation 10(3A) applies, that pupil’s attendance at another school at which he or she is a registered pupil.”f2.
6AmendmentI1
In regulation 8 (Leave of absence), in paragraph (2)(c), for the words “a police magistrate as defined in paragraph (9) of that section” there shall be substituted the words “a justice of the peace”.
7AmendmentI1
In regulation 9 (Deletions from Admissions Register), for paragraph (4)(d) there shall be substituted the following—
“(d)the permanent exclusion of a pupil does not take effect until the governing body have discharged their duties under section 66 of the 1998 Act, and—
(i)the relevant person has stated in writing that he or she does not intend to bring an appeal under section 67 of the 1998 Act;
(ii)the time for bringing an appeal has expired and no appeal has been brought within that time; or
(iii)an appeal brought within that time has been determined or abandoned.”
8AmendmentI1
In regulation 16 (Use of Computers), in paragraph (6), for “Data Protection Act 1984” there shall be substituted “Data Protection Act 1998”f1.
Signature
Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998f1
D. Elis-Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly
15th March 2001
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Education (Pupil Registration) Regulations 1995 in relation to Wales.
The effect of regulation 5, in the case of a pupil who is registered as a pupil at more than one school (except one who has no fixed abode because of the itinerant nature of the pupil’s parent’s trade or business), is to change the way the pupil’s absence from one of those schools on account of his attendance at another such school is recorded in a school’s attendance register. In these circumstances the pupil’s absence will be recorded as an approved educational activity rather than as an authorised absence.
Regulation 6 takes account of the amendment of section 25 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 by regulation 5 of the Children (Protection at Work) Regulations 1998.
Regulation 7 takes account of the provisions in the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 in relation to when the permanent exclusion of a pupil takes effect.