SCHOOL EDUCATION ACT 1999 - SECT 79

SCHOOL EDUCATION ACT 1999 - SECT 79

79 .         Child of compulsory school age, when entitled to be enrolled at non local-intake school

        (1)         Subject to subsection (2), a child of compulsory school age is entitled to be enrolled at a particular government school that is not a local-intake school if —

            (a)         there is available for the child at the school —

                  (i)         an appropriate educational programme; and

                  (ii)         classroom accommodation;

                and

            (b)         the enrolment would conform with any other criteria prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.

        (2)         If the number of children referred to in subsection (1) applying for enrolment at a particular government school that is not a local-intake school exceeds the number of available places at the school, priority for enrolment is to be given to the child who lives nearest the school.

[ 80.         Deleted: No. 22 of 2005 s. 7.]