PART IIIDISABILITY DISCRIMINATION IN EDUCATION
CHAPTER ISCHOOLS
Duties of responsible bodies
Discrimination against disabled pupils and prospective pupils14
1
It is unlawful for the body responsible for a school to discriminate against a disabled person—
a
in the arrangements it makes for determining admission to the school as a pupil;
b
in the terms on which it offers to admit him to the school as a pupil; or
c
by refusing or deliberately omitting to accept an application for his admission to the school as a pupil.
2
It is unlawful for the body responsible for a school to discriminate against a disabled pupil in the education or associated services provided for, or offered to, pupils at the school by that body.
3
It is unlawful for the body responsible for a school to discriminate against a disabled pupil by suspending or expelling him from the school.
4
In the case of an act which constitutes discrimination by virtue of Article 43, this Article also applies to discrimination against a person who is not disabled.
5
For the purposes of this Chapter the body responsible for a school is—
a
in the case of a grant-aided school, the board F1... or the Board of Governors, according to which has the function in question;
b
in relation to an independent school, the proprietor;
and in this Chapter that body is referred to as the “responsible body”.