Part VI School admissions, attendance and charges
Chapter IF1Admission, registration and withdrawal of pupils
Parental preferences
F2411 Parental preferences.
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F3411A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Admission arrangements for county and voluntary schools
F4412. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F5413. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F6413A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F7413B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F8414. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Admission numbers for county and voluntary schools
F9415. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F10416. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F11417. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F12418. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F13419. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F14420. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F15421. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F16421A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
New county and voluntary schools
F17422. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Admissions appeals relating to county and voluntary schools
F18423. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F19423A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Nursery and special schools, etc.
F20424. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Admission arrangements for grant-maintained schools
F21425. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F22425A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F23425B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Admission numbers for grant-maintained schools
F24426. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F25426A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F26427. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F27428. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Admissions appeals relating to grant-maintained schools
F28429. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Co-ordinated arrangements for admissions
F29430. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Power to direct admission of child to school
F30431. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F31432. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Time for admission of pupils
433 Time for admission of pupils.
1
Section 14 (which requires a F36local authority to secure that sufficient schools for providing primary and secondary education are available for their area) shall not be construed as imposing any obligation on the proprietor of a school to admit children as pupils otherwise than at the beginning of a school term.
2
Where, however, a child was prevented from entering a school at the beginning of a term—
a
by his being ill or by other circumstances beyond his parent’s control, or
b
by his parent’s having been then resident at a place from which the school was not accessible with reasonable facility,
the school’s proprietor is not entitled by virtue of subsection (1) to refuse to admit him as a pupil during the currency of the term.
3
In cases where subsection (2) does not apply, the governing body of a school maintained by a F36local authority shall comply with any general directions given by the authority as to the time of admission of children as pupils.
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5
Despite section 7 (duty of parent of child of compulsory school age to cause him to receive full-time education), a parent is not under a duty to cause a child to receive full-time education during any period during which, having regard to subsections (1) and (2), it is not practicable for the parent to arrange for him to be admitted as a pupil at a school.
Registration of pupils
C2434 Registration of pupils.
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The proprietor of a school shall cause to be kept, in accordance with regulations, a register containing the prescribed particulars in respect of all persons who are pupils at the school.
2
Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the prescribed particulars shall include particulars of the name and address of every person known to the proprietor to be a parent of a pupil at the school.
3
The regulations shall prescribe the grounds on which names are to be deleted from a register kept under this section; and the name of a person entered in such a register as a pupil at a school—
a
shall, when any of the prescribed grounds is applicable, be deleted from the register on that ground; and
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shall not be deleted from the register otherwise than on any such ground.
4
The regulations may make provision—
a
for enabling registers kept under this section to be inspected;
b
for enabling extracts from such registers to be taken for the purposes of this Act by persons authorised to do so under the regulations; and
5
In this Act—
“registered pupil”, in relation to a school, means a person registered as a pupil at the school in the register kept under this section; and
“registered”, in relation to the parents of pupils at a school or in relation to the names or addresses of such parents or pupils, means shown in that register.
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A person who contravenes or fails to comply with any requirement imposed on him by regulations under this section is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.
Withdrawal of pupils from primary school for secondary education
435 Withdrawal of pupils from a primary school for secondary education.
A F36local authority may make arrangements in respect of a primary school maintained by them (other than one that is for the time being organised for the provision of both primary and secondary education) under which any registered pupils who are under the age of 12 but have attained the age of 10 years and six months may be required to be withdrawn from the school for the purpose of receiving secondary education.
Words in cross-heading substituted (1.9.1999) by 1998 c. 31, s. 140(1), Sch. 30 para.108 (with ss. 138(9), 144(6)); S.I. 1999/1016, art. 2(3), Sch. 2