New South Wales Consolidated Acts

EDUCATION ACT 1990 - SECT 26I

26I Representations by student, parents and others

(1) Before a direction is given under this Division:

(a) the Director-General must ensure that the student the subject of the proposed direction, the parents or a parent of the student and any other person identified in the guidelines for the purposes of this section:

(i) is given access to the information that gave rise to the proposed direction, and

(ii) is given written notice of the grounds for the proposed direction, and

(iii) is given an opportunity to make representations (whether oral or written, or both oral and written, as the student, parent or other person chooses) in relation to the information and the proposed direction, and

(b) the Director-General must take into consideration any representations so made.

(2) However, the guidelines may provide that the access, notice and opportunity required by this section may be withheld, in the circumstances specified in the guidelines, from any person referred to in this section.

(3) Guidelines referred to in subsection (2) must require the access, notice and opportunity concerned to be given to at least one adult person referred to in this section (who may be the student, if the student is an adult).