Schools (Suspension and Expulsion of Pupils) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1998 No. 255

EDUCATION

Schools (Suspension and Expulsion of Pupils) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Made

21st July 1998

Coming into operation

1st September 1998

The Department of Education in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 49(4)(1) and 134(1)(2) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(3) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Schools (Suspension and Expulsion of Pupils) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 1st September 1998.

Amendment of the Schools (Suspension and Expulsion of Pupils) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995

2.  In regulation 3 of the Schools (Suspension and Expulsion of Pupils) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995(4) (Matters for which provision should be made in schemes) for paragraph (c) there shall be substituted the following:

“(c)a pupil may be suspended from school for not more than forty-five school days in any one school year;”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Education on

L.S.

C. Jendoubi

Assistant Secretary

21st July 1998.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Schools (Suspension and Expulsion of Pupils) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995.

The Regulations make the following change—

Regulation 2 provides that the maximum period of suspension specified in a scheme for the suspension and expulsion of pupils in grant-aided schools shall be 45 school days in any school year, rather than 15 days in any school term.

(1)

As substituted by S.I. 1993/2810 (N.I. 12) Article 39

(2)

As amended by S.I. 1993/2810 (N.I. 12) Article 50(1) and Schedule 4 Part II

(3)

S.I. 1986/594 (N.I. 3) see Article 2(2) for definitions of “the Department”, “prescribed” and “regulations”