The School Discipline (Pupil Exclusions and Reviews) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023

PART 1 General

Citation, commencement, extent and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the School Discipline (Pupil Exclusions and Reviews) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023, and they come into force on 1st September 2023.

(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales.

(3) These Regulations apply in relation to relation to exclusions of pupils from maintained schools, pupil referral units and Academies in England.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the 2012 Regulations” means the School Discipline (Pupil Exclusions and Reviews) (England) Regulations 2012(1);

“Academy” means an Academy school or alternative provision Academy.

Amendment of the 2012 Regulations

3.  The 2012 Regulations are amended in accordance with regulations 4 to 14.

Amendment of regulation 2 of the 2012 Regulations

4.  In regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1)—

(a) omit the definition of “coronavirus”;

(b) before the definition of “home local authority” insert—

“extraordinary events or unforeseen circumstances” means extraordinary events or unforeseen circumstances arising after a meeting has been agreed to take place in person;”;

(c) omit the definition of “relevant exclusion”;

(d) after the definition of “remote access” insert—

““remote meeting request” means a request by a relevant person for a meeting to be held using remote access;”.

(1)

2012/1033, as amended by S.I. 2020/543, 2020/908, 2021/204, 2021/953 and 2022/788.