Textual Amendments
F1Words in cross-heading substituted (1.9.1999) by 1998 c. 31, s. 140(1), Sch. 30 para.108 (with ss. 138(9), 144(6)); S.I. 1999/1016, art. 2(3), Sch. 2
(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, [F2and]
F3(ii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(iii)[F4local 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.
Textual Amendments
F2Word in s. 434(4)(c)(i) inserted (1.9.1999) by 1998 c. 31, s. 140(1), Sch. 30 para. 111(a) (with ss. 138(9), 144(6)); S.I. 1999/2323, art. 2(1), Sch. 1.
F3S. 434(4)(c)(ii) repealed (1.9.1999) by 1998 c. 31, s. 140(1)(3), Sch. 30 para. 111(b), Sch.31 (with ss. 138(9), 144(6)); S.I. 1999/2323, art. 2(1), Sch. 1.
F4Words in Act substituted (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1158), Sch. 2 para. 7(3) (with Sch. 2 para. 7(4)(5))