Part III Grant-maintained schools

Chapter X General and Miscellaneous

Exclusion of pupils

307 Restrictions on power to exclude pupils.

1

The head teacher of any grant-maintained school may not—

a

so exercise the power to exclude a pupil from the school for one or more fixed periods that the pupil is so excluded for more than 15 school days in any one term, or

b

exclude a pupil from the school for an indefinite period;

but this subsection is without prejudice to the power to exclude a pupil from the school permanently.

2

Subsection (1) has effect, in the case of a school having articles of government, despite anything in the articles.