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Part 10Independent schools

Chapter 1Regulation of independent schools

Supplementary

168Provision of information

(1)Regulations may make provision for requiring the proprietor of a registered school to provide the registration authority, when the authority so requests, with such particulars relating to the school as may be prescribed.

(2)Regulations under this section may in particular—

(a)require the provision of such information as is required by the local authority for the purposes of determining whether the school is a children’s home (within the meaning of the Care Standards Act 2000 (c. 14));

(b)provide for the registration authority to remove from the register any school in respect of which any requirement imposed by or under the regulations is not complied with;

(c)provide that a person who fails to comply with any specified provision of the regulations is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

169Unsuitable persons

The registration authority may remove a registered school from the register where it is satisfied that any person who, in relation to the school, carries out any work to which section 142 applies—

(a)is carrying out that work in contravention of a direction under that section, or

(b)is subject to an order under section 28 or 29 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (c. 43) (disqualification from working with children).

170Service of notice etc.

(1)The registration authority must serve on the proprietor of a registered school notice of—

(a)any decision made by the authority under section 162 in relation to the school;

(b)any determination or order made by the authority under section 165 in relation to the school;

(c)any decision made by the authority under subsection (10) of that section in relation to the school.

(2)For the purposes of this Chapter, any notice, order or other document required to be given to or served on the proprietor of a registered school may be given to or served on him by delivering it to the registered address of the school.

171Interpretation of Chapter 1

In this Chapter—