Returns
12.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the proprietor of every school must make to the local authority, at such intervals as may be agreed between the proprietor and the local authority, or as may determined by the Welsh Ministers in default of agreement, a return giving the name and address of every registered pupil of compulsory school age who—
(a)fails to attend the school regularly; or
(b)has been absent from the school, where the absence has not been treated as authorised in accordance with regulation 6(2), for a continuous period of not less than ten school days, and specifying the cause of absence if known to the proprietor.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply with respect to any absence from the school—
(a)due to sickness of the pupil in respect of which a medical certificate has been furnished to the head teacher;
(b)due to leave of absence granted in accordance with regulation 7;
(c)of a pupil who is registered at more than one school, due to the pupil attending another school at which he or she is a registered pupil; and
(d)during any period when the pupil was attending an approved educational activity within the meaning of regulation 6(4).
(3) When the name of a pupil has been deleted from the admission register in accordance with regulation 8(1)(c), (d), (g), (i) or (m), the proprietor must make a return to the local authority giving the full name and address of that pupil within the ten school days immediately following the date on which the pupil’s name was so deleted.