PART IIIDISABILITY DISCRIMINATION IN EDUCATION

CHAPTER ISCHOOLS

Duties of responsible bodies

Discrimination against disabled pupils and prospective pupils14

1

It is unlawful for the body responsible for a school to discriminate against a disabled person—

a

in the arrangements it makes for determining admission to the school as a pupil;

b

in the terms on which it offers to admit him to the school as a pupil; or

c

by refusing or deliberately omitting to accept an application for his admission to the school as a pupil.

2

It is unlawful for the body responsible for a school to discriminate against a disabled pupil in the education or associated services provided for, or offered to, pupils at the school by that body.

3

It is unlawful for the body responsible for a school to discriminate against a disabled pupil by suspending or expelling him from the school.

4

In the case of an act which constitutes discrimination by virtue of Article 43, this Article also applies to discrimination against a person who is not disabled.

5

For the purposes of this Chapter the body responsible for a school is—

a

in the case of a grant-aided school, the board for the area in which the school is situated or the Board of Governors, according to which has the function in question;

b

in relation to an independent school, the proprietor;

and in this Chapter that body is referred to as the “responsible body”.