10Amendment of procedure for making school attendance orders
Subsection (2) of section thirty-seven of the principal Act shall, in relation to the service of a school attendance order upon a parent in consequence of his. failure to satisfy a local education authority, in accordance with the requirements of a notice served on him under subsection (1) of that section after the passing of this Act, that a child is receiving efficient full-time education suitable to his age, ability and aptitude, have effect with the substitution, for the proviso thereto, of the following proviso:—
“Provided that—
(a)no such order shall be served by the authority upon the parent until the expiration of the period of fourteen days beginning with the day next following that on which they have served upon him a written notice of their intention to serve the order stating that if, before the expiration of that period, he selects a school at which he desires the child to become a registered pupil, that school will, unless the Minister otherwise directs, be named in the order; and
(b)if, before the expiration of that period, the parent selects such a school as aforesaid, that school shall, unless the Minister otherwise directs, be so named”.