The Education (Pupil Registration) Regulations 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations consolidate, with amendments, the Pupils' Registration Regulations 1956, to which there have been a number of subsequent amendments, and regulations 11 and 12 of the Education (Schools and Further Education) Regulations 1981. The 1956 Regulations and regulations 11 and 12 of the 1981 Regulations are revoked. Apart from minor drafting amendments, the following changes of substance are made.

Where the reason for a pupil’s absence cannot be established at the commencement of a session, that absence is to be recorded as unauthorised until the person with responsibility for completing the register has ascertained that the absence was authorised and has amended the register accordingly (regulation 7(4)).

The name of a pupil may only be deleted from the attendance register when that pupil’s name has been deleted from the admission register in accordance with regulation 9 (regulation 7(5)).

Where a pupil of compulsory school age has been granted extended leave of absence for the purposes of a holiday and fails to return to the school within ten school days of the expiry of that grant of leave, and the proprietor is satisfied that the failure to return is not due to sickness or any unavoidable cause, that pupil’s name shall be deleted from the admission register (regulation 9(1)(e)).

Where a pupil has been continuously absent from school for a period of four weeks his name may not be deleted from the admission register until both the school and the local education authority have failed, after reasonable enquiry, to locate the pupil (regulation 9(1)(g)).

Where the proprietor has been notified by a parent that a pupil is receiving education otherwise than at school, and has deleted that pupil’s name from the register in accordance with regulation 9(1)(c), a return must be made to the local education authority within the ten school days immediately following that deletion (regulation 13(3)).