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Education (Scotland) Act 1980

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As published

44 Powers of Courts in relation to child.

(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) If the court before which a prosecution is brought for an offence against section 35 of this Act is satisfied that a child has failed without reasonable excuse to attend regularly at school, but does not, in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by section 62(1) of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 1), refer the matter to the Principal Reporter, the court may, if the child is still of school age, make an attendance order in respect of the child requiring the parent to cause the child to attend the public school which he has been attending or, if the child has changed his residence, a school attended by children residing in the same neighbourhood as the child; and subsections (2) and (3) of section 38 and sections 39 to 41 of this Act shall apply with any necessary modifications to an attendance order made by a court under this section as they apply to an attendance order made by an education authority.

Your change, as a redline

44 Powers of Courts in relation to child.

(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) If the court before which a prosecution is brought for an offence against section 35 of this Act is satisfied that a child has failed without reasonable excuse to attend regularly at school, but does not, in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by section 62(1) of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 1), refer the matter to the Principal Reporter, the court may, if the child is still of school age, make an attendance order in respect of the child requiring the parent to cause the child to attend the public school which he has been attending or, if the child has changed his residence, a school attended by children residing in the same neighbourhood as the child; and subsections (2) and (3) of section 38 and sections 39 to 41 of this Act shall apply with any necessary modifications to an attendance order made by a court under this section as they apply to an attendance order made by an education authority.

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