SCHEDULECONSTITUTION AND PROCEDURE OF APPEAL PANELS

Time limits and notices waiving right to appeal1

1

No appeal under regulation 7(1) against a decision not to reinstate a pupil may be made after the fifteenth school day after the day on which the relevant person is given notice in writing under regulation 6(6)(b).

2

For the purpose of calculating the period referred to in sub-paragraph (1), the notice is to be taken to have been given —

a

where first class post is used, on the second working day after the date of posting, or

b

where the notice is delivered by hand, on the date of delivery,

unless in either case the contrary is shown.

3

Subject to sub-paragraph (4), any notice in writing given by the relevant person to the local education authority which states that he or she does not intend to appeal against a decision not to reinstate the pupil is final.

4

Where the relevant person is both a pupil of compulsory school age who was aged 11 or above on the day before the beginning of the school year in which that pupil is excluded and a parent of his or hers, a notice in writing given under sub-paragraph (3) by a parent will be treated as final whether or not the pupil has given such notice in writing.