Children, Schools and Families Bill, Section 19D

Children, Schools and Families Bill, Section 19D

19D Duration of registration

(1) Subsection (2) applies if a parent of a child has made an application to a local authority in England, in the prescribed manner, for the child’s details to be entered on their home education register.

(2) The child is to be treated for the purposes of this Act as being registered on the register throughout the registration period; and references in this Act to a child being registered on an authority’s home education register are to be interpreted accordingly.

(3) The registration period begins with the date on which the application for entry of the child’s details on the register is received by the authority.

(4) Subject to subsection (5), the registration period ends—

(a) where the authority give notice to the child’s parent under section 19B(5)(a), with the expiry of the period of 12 months starting with the date of the notice;

(b) where the authority give notice to the child’s parent under section 19B(5)(b) or (c), with the date of the notice.

(5) If before the end of the period mentioned in subsection (4)(a)—

(a) the authority give notice to the child’s parent under section 19F(3), or

(b) the child ceases to be of compulsory school age, the registration period ends with the date of the notice or (as the case may be) with the date on which the child ceases to be of compulsory school age.