Education Act 1997

8 Exclusion appeals: grant-maintained and grant-maintained special schools

(1) After section 307 of the [1996 c. 56.] Education Act 1996 there shall be inserted—

“307A Exclusion appeals

Schedule 25A to this Act has effect in relation to the procedure on any appeal which—

(a) is made in pursuance of arrangements made by the governing body of a grant-maintained school by virtue of paragraph 6(1) and (2) of Schedule 23 (content of articles of government), and

(b) relates to a decision not to reinstate a pupil who has been permanently excluded from the school.”

(2) After Schedule 25 to that Act there shall be inserted as Schedule 25A the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to this Act.

(3) At the end of Schedule 28 to that Act (government and conduct of grant-maintained special schools) there shall be added—

“16 Section 307A and Schedule 25A (exclusion appeals) apply in relation to a grant-maintained special school as they apply in relation to a grant-maintained school, but as if any reference in those provisions to any provision of Schedule 23 were a reference to that provision as it applies in accordance with regulations under paragraph 14 above.”