(1)  A youth is exempted from the requirement to attend an approved learning program if –

(a) the youth is suspended or temporarily excluded from that program; or

(b) the youth has been expelled from that program; or

(c) the youth has been, or is a member of a class of youths that has been, exempted under section 26 from the requirement to participate in an approved learning program; or

(d) the youth attends, or attended, a program which the youth's parent or youth reasonably believes, or believed, to be an approved learning program.

(2)  An exemption under this section ceases to have effect on the day on which the event on which the exemption is based ceases to apply.

(3)  A youth is not exempted from the requirement to attend an approved learning program by reason only of disability.