160 Additional provision for appeals against exclusion of pupils.E+W
(1)Where the articles of government for a county, voluntary or maintained special school provide—
(a)for the parents of an excluded pupil to have the right to appeal against his exclusion to a person specified by the articles, and
(b)for the procedure to be followed on such an appeal,
any decision on such an appeal that the pupil should be reinstated, or that he should be reinstated earlier than would otherwise be the case, shall be binding on the head teacher.
(2)In subsection (1) “excluded pupil” means a pupil who is excluded from the school in circumstances in which no right of appeal is given by virtue of section 159.