7.—(1) Section 104 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (notice to parent relating to excluded pupil)(1) is modified as follows.
(2) Subsection (5) is omitted.
(3) In subsection (8)—
(a)for paragraph (a) of the definition of “the appropriate authority” substitute—
“(a)in the case of a permanent exclusion, the governing body of a maintained school or the proprietor of an Academy,”; and
(b)in paragraph (a) of the definition of “the relevant enactment”, for “a local authority” substitute “the governing body of a maintained school or the proprietor of an Academy”.