Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies to the parents of a child if the child is of compulsory school age and lives in the ACT.
(2) Not later than 14 school term days after the day the child turns 6 years old, or begins to live in the ACT, the parents must enrol the child at a school or apply to register the child for home education.
Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if—
(a) the child lives in the ACT but is enrolled in a school under State law and the parents have given the chief executive written notice of the enrolment; or
(b) an exemption certificate is in force for the child; or
(c) the parents have a reasonable excuse for not complying with the subsection.
(4) An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.