The Education (Pupil Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Amendments

6.  —In regulation 10 (dual registration)—

(1) after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—

“(3A) This paragraph applies to a pupil who

(a) has no fixed abode for the reason that his parent is engaged in a trade or business of such a nature as to require him to travel from place to place; and

(b) is at any time registered as a pupil at two or more schools.

(3B) The name of a pupil to whom paragraph (3A) applies shall not be deleted from the register of a school pursuant to regulation 9(1)(b) while he is attending that school.

(3C) The name of a pupil to whom paragraph (3A) applies shall not be deleted from that pupil’s school of ordinary attendance pursuant to regulation 9(1)(b).

(3D) Subject to paragraph (3E), for the purposes of paragraph (3C), a school shall be a pupil’s school of ordinary attendance if, during the immediately preceding 18 months, it is the school which the pupil has attended during periods when his parent is not travelling in the course of trade or business.

(3E) In any case in which two or more schools fulfil the definition of a school of ordinary attendance in paragraph (3D), paragraph (3C) shall apply only in respect of the school which fulfils the definition most recently.”; and

(2) in paragraph (4) the number “(3E)” shall be substituted for the number “(3)”.