School Education Amendment Regulations 2006 (WA)

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ED301*

School Education Act 1999

School Education Amendment Regulations 2006

The amendments in these regulations are to the School
Education Regulations 2000*.

[* Reprint 1 as at 3 March 2006.]

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations are the School Education Amendment
Regulations 2006.

2.            Commencement

These regulations conic into operation on 1 January 2007.

3.            The regulations amended

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4.            Regulation 36 replaced

Regulation 36 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted instead -

36. Non-compliance with a school dress code:
s. 123(2)(a)

(1) In this regulation -

"non-complying student" means a student at a

government school -

(a) who does not comply with -

(i) code when not exempted under

a requirement of the school's dress the requirement; or

(ii)

a condition imposed under applies to the student;

and

(b) who had reached the age of 6 years and

6 months at the time of the alleged
non-compliance or would have reached that
age during the calendar year in which the

alleged non-compliance occurred; and

(c) who had not reached the age of 18 at the

time of the alleged non-compliance.

(2) If a non-complying student is enrolled in a primary

programme the principal of the school may do one or

both of the following things -

(a)	prevent the student from attending any activity in respect of which the student would have
been representing the school;
(b)	prevent the student from attending or participating in any school activity which, in the opinion of the principal, is not an essential part of the student's educational programme.

(3) Despite any provision of Division 5, a student to whom

subregulation (2) applies is not to be disciplined in relation to the non-compliance in any manner other than the manner set Out in that subregulation.

(4) If a non-complying student is enrolled in an
educational programme other than a primary
programme the provisions of Division 5 Subdivision
apply as if the student had committed a breach of
school discipline.

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(5)	Despite subregulation (4), a student may not be prevented from attending or participating in any school activity which, in the opinion of the school's principal, is an essential part of the student's educational programme.
(6)	Nothing in this regulation enables a student to be treated as having committed a breach of school discipline for the purpose of suspending or excluding the student under Part 3 Division 5 of the Act.

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.