Education Act 1996

307 Restrictions on power to exclude pupils.E+W

(1)The head teacher of any grant-maintained school may not—

(a)so exercise the power to exclude a pupil from the school for one or more fixed periods that the pupil is so excluded for more than 15 school days in any one term, or

(b)exclude a pupil from the school for an indefinite period;

but this subsection is without prejudice to the power to exclude a pupil from the school permanently.

(2)Subsection (1) has effect, in the case of a school having articles of government, despite anything in the articles.