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Education Act 1996

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453 Examinations: prohibition of charges and recovery of wasted fees.

(1) No charge shall be made in respect of the entry of a registered pupil at a maintained school for a prescribed public examination in any syllabus for that examination for which the pupil has been prepared at the school. (2) Despite subsection (1), where— (a) the governing body of a maintained school or the local authority have paid or are liable to pay a fee in respect of the entry of a registered pupil at the school for a public examination in any syllabus for that examination, and (b) the pupil fails without good reason to meet any examination requirement for that syllabus, that body or authority may recover the amount of the fee from the pupil’s parent. (3) It shall be for the body or authority who have paid or are liable to pay the fee in question to determine for the purposes of this section any question whether a pupil who has failed to meet an examination requirement had good reason for the failure.

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453 Examinations: prohibition of charges and recovery of wasted fees.

(1) No charge shall be made in respect of the entry of a registered pupil at a maintained school for a prescribed public examination in any syllabus for that examination for which the pupil has been prepared at the school. (2) Despite subsection (1), where— (a) the governing body of a maintained school or the local authority have paid or are liable to pay a fee in respect of the entry of a registered pupil at the school for a public examination in any syllabus for that examination, and (b) the pupil fails without good reason to meet any examination requirement for that syllabus, that body or authority may recover the amount of the fee from the pupil’s parent. (3) It shall be for the body or authority who have paid or are liable to pay the fee in question to determine for the purposes of this section any question whether a pupil who has failed to meet an examination requirement had good reason for the failure.

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