Prescribed time for head teacher to give notice to parent in relation to exclusion
6.—(1) Paragraphs (2) to (6) prescribe, in different cases, the time by which the head teacher of a relevant school in England, on excluding from the school a pupil of compulsory school age, must give the parent a notice in writing under section 104(1) of the 2006 Act.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where a pupil is excluded during the course of a school day but before the beginning of any afternoon session on that day, the time prescribed is the start of the afternoon session.
(3) If any of the information referred to in regulation 7(1) is not known to and cannot be ascertained without unreasonable difficulty by the head teacher to enable the notice to be given by the time prescribed by paragraph (2), the time prescribed is the end of the afternoon session.
(4) Subject to paragraph (5), where an excluded pupil is excluded during the course of a school day but after the beginning of any afternoon session on that day, the prescribed time is the end of the afternoon session.
(5) If any of the information referred to in regulation 7(1) is not known to and cannot be ascertained without unreasonable difficulty by the head teacher to enable the notice to be given by the time prescribed by paragraph (4), the time prescribed is the end of the first school session on the school day next following (or if it is the only school session on that day, the end of that session).
(6) Paragraph (4) applies to a pupil excluded during the course of a school day on which there is only one session as if the word “afternoon” was omitted on both occasions it occurs.