4.—(1) Except in a case prescribed by regulation 5, in relation to the duty of a local education authority under section 19(1) and (3A) of the 1996 Act(1) to make arrangements for the provision of suitable full-time education for a pupil of compulsory school age who is permanently excluded from a relevant school or pupil referral unit, or excluded from a pupil referral unit for a fixed period, on disciplinary grounds, the day from which the education must be provided is the relevant day.
(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) prevents the local education authority from providing such education before the relevant day.
(3) In this regulation, “relevant day” in relation to a pupil means—
(a)where the pupil is permanently excluded from a relevant school or a pupil referral unit, from the sixth school day following the day on which the permanent exclusion took place;
(b)where the pupil is excluded for a fixed period from a pupil referral unit, the sixth school day of the exclusion.
Subsection (3A) of section 19 was inserted by section 101(2) of the 2006 Act.