The Education (Pupil Registration) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001

Amendment

5.  In regulation 7 (Contents of the Attendance Register)—

(a) in paragraph (3)(c), for the words “who” to “because” there shall be substituted “to whom regulation 10(3A) applies,”;

(b) for paragraph (4A)(1) there shall be substituted the following—

“(4A) An approved educational activity is either—

(a) an activity which takes place outside the school premises and which is—

(i) approved by a person authorised in that behalf by the proprietor of the school;

(ii) of an educational nature, including work experience under section 560 of the Education Act 1996 and a sporting activity; and

(iii) supervised by a person authorised in that behalf by the proprietor or the head teacher of the school; or

(b) in the case of a pupil, other than a pupil to whom regulation 10(3A) applies, that pupil’s attendance at another school at which he or she is a registered pupil.”(2).

(1)

Paragraph (4A) was inserted by S.I 1997/2624.

(2)

The absence of a pupil to whom regulation 10(3A) applies (a traveller child) to attend another school at which he or she is a registered pupil will be recorded not as an approved educational activity but as an authorised absence; see the amendment to regulation 7(3)(c) of S.I. 1995/2089 as effected by regulation 5(a) of these Regulations.