Search Legislation

Education and Inspections Act 2006

 Help about what version

What Version

 Help about advanced features

Advanced Features

 Help about opening options

Opening OptionsExpand opening options

Changes over time for: Section 104

 Help about opening options

Version Superseded: 01/04/2012

Status:

Point in time view as at 01/10/2010. This version of this provision has been superseded. Help about Status

Changes to legislation:

Education and Inspections Act 2006, Section 104 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 09 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations. Help about Changes to Legislation

104Notice to parent relating to excluded pupilE+W
This section has no associated Explanatory Notes

(1)The head teacher of a relevant school in England, on excluding from the school a pupil of compulsory school age, must give the parent by the prescribed time a notice in writing complying with subsections (2) and (3) and containing such other information as may be prescribed.

(2)Where the appropriate authority are or will be obliged under the relevant enactment to make arrangements for the provision of full-time education for the excluded pupil during his exclusion, or intend to do so without being so obliged, the notice must specify the first day on which full-time education is to be provided for the excluded pupil.

(3)The notice must specify as days on which the parent is to be subject to section 103(2) each school day beginning with the first school day to which the exclusion relates and ending with the earliest of the following—

(a)where a day is specified under subsection (2), the school day preceding that day,

(b)the fifth school day to which the exclusion relates, and

(c)the last school day to which the exclusion relates.

(4)Subsection (7) of section 103 applies for the purposes of subsection (3) as it applies for the purposes of subsection (2)(a) of that section.

(5)Where the appropriate authority are a [F1local authority], they must provide the head teacher with such information as will enable the head teacher to give a notice complying with subsection (2).

(6)Section 572 of EA 1996, which provides for the methods by which notices may be served under that Act, does not preclude a notice under this section from being given to the parent of the excluded pupil by any effective method.

(7)Regulations may enable a notice under this section to be combined with a notice required by virtue of section 52(3)(a) of EA 2002 (which relates to the exclusion of pupils from maintained schools).

(8)In this section—

  • the appropriate authority” means—

    (a)

    in the case of a permanent exclusion or an exclusion from a pupil referral unit, a [F1local authority],

    (b)

    in the case of an exclusion for a fixed period from a maintained school, the governing body of the school, and

    (c)

    in the case of an exclusion for a fixed period from a relevant school which is an Academy, a city technology college or a city college for the technology of the arts, the proprietor of the school;

  • prescribed” means prescribed by regulations;

  • regulations” means regulations made by the Secretary of State;

  • the relevant enactment” means—

    (a)

    where the appropriate authority is a [F1local authority], section 19 of EA 1996, and

    (b)

    in any other case, section 100 of this Act.

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I1S. 104 in force at 1.9.2007 by S.I. 2007/1801, art. 4(h)

Back to top

Options/Help

You have chosen to open The Whole Act without Schedules

The Whole Act without Schedules you have selected contains over 200 provisions and might take some time to download. You may also experience some issues with your browser, such as an alert box that a script is taking a long time to run.

Would you like to continue?

You have chosen to open The Whole Act without Schedules as a PDF

The Whole Act without Schedules you have selected contains over 200 provisions and might take some time to download.

Would you like to continue?