Part VI School admissions, attendance and charges
Chapter IF1Admission, registration and withdrawal of pupils
Time for admission of pupils
433 Time for admission of pupils.
1
Section 14 (which requires a F3local authority to secure that sufficient schools for providing primary and secondary education are available for their area) shall not be construed as imposing any obligation on the proprietor of a school to admit children as pupils otherwise than at the beginning of a school term.
2
Where, however, a child was prevented from entering a school at the beginning of a term—
a
by his being ill or by other circumstances beyond his parent’s control, or
b
by his parent’s having been then resident at a place from which the school was not accessible with reasonable facility,
the school’s proprietor is not entitled by virtue of subsection (1) to refuse to admit him as a pupil during the currency of the term.
3
In cases where subsection (2) does not apply, the governing body of a school maintained by a F3local authority shall comply with any general directions given by the authority as to the time of admission of children as pupils.
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5
Despite section 7 (duty of parent of child of compulsory school age to cause him to receive full-time education), a parent is not under a duty to cause a child to receive full-time education during any period during which, having regard to subsections (1) and (2), it is not practicable for the parent to arrange for him to be admitted as a pupil at a school.
Words in cross-heading substituted (1.9.1999) by 1998 c. 31, s. 140(1), Sch. 30 para.108 (with ss. 138(9), 144(6)); S.I. 1999/1016, art. 2(3), Sch. 2