SCHEDULES

F1Schedule 33B

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F2 No requirement to admit children permanently excluded from two or more schools

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F2

Sch. 33B inserted (1.9.1997 so far as relating to paras. 3 and 4) by 1997 c. 44, ss. 14(2), 58(3), Sch. 3 (with s. 57(3)); S.I. 1997/1468, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 Pt.II

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1

The governing body of a grant-maintained school shall not be under any duty to admit to the school any child to whom sub-paragraph (3) applies.

2

The governing body of such a school shall not be under any duty to make arrangements for enabling any person to appeal against a decision refusing a child admission to the school in a case where, at the time when the decision is made, sub-paragraph (3) applies to the child.

3

Where a child has been permanently excluded from two or more schools, this sub-paragraph applies to him during the period of two years beginning with the date on which the latest of those exclusions took effect.

4

Sub-paragraph (3) applies to a child whatever the length of the period or periods elapsing between those exclusions and regardless of whether it has applied to him on a previous occasion.

5

However, a child shall not be regarded as permanently excluded from a school for the purposes of this paragraph if—

a

although so excluded he was reinstated as a pupil at the school following the giving of a direction to that effect to the head teacher of the school; or

b

he was so excluded at a time when he had not attained compulsory school age.

6

In this paragraph “school” means—

a

a school maintained by a local education authority; or

b

a grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school.

7

This paragraph does not apply in relation to a child unless at least one of the two or more exclusions mentioned in sub-paragraph (3) took effect on or after the date of the coming into force of section 14 of the Education Act 1997.

8

For the purposes of this paragraph the permanent exclusion of a child from a school shall be regarded as having taken effect on the school day as from which the head teacher decided that he should be permanently excluded.