Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

EDUCATION ACT - SECT 36

    (1)     Where it appears to:

        (a)     a parent who has the actual custody of a child of compulsory school age; or

        (b)     the principal of the school at which a child of compulsory school age is enrolled;

that the child is a handicapped child or that the educational progress of the child will, by reason of some special factor, other than a physical or mental handicap, suffer unless the child has access to special educational arrangements:

        (c)     that parent; or

        (d)     that principal;

may request the Minister to make special arrangements for or in relation to the education of the child.

    (2)     Where it appears to a parent who has the actual custody of a child who is not of compulsory school age that the child is a handicapped child, the parent may request the Minister to make special arrangements for or in relation to the education of the child.