Part VI School admissions, attendance and charges
Chapter I School admissions
Registration of pupils
434 Registration of pupils.
1
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
b
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
c
for requiring the person by whom any such register is required to be kept to make to—
i
the Secretary of State,
ii
the funding authorities, and
iii
local education authorities,
such periodical or other returns as to the contents of the register as may be prescribed.
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.
6
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.