The Pupils' Registration (Amendment) Regulations 1988

Made: 7th July 1988

Laid before Parliament: 19th July 1988

Coming into force: 31st October 1988

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 80 of the Education Act 1944[^f00001] and vested in the Secretary of State[^f00002], the Secretary of State for Education and Science, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, hereby make the following Regulations:

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Pupils' Registration (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 31st October 1988.

2

In these Regulations a reference to “the principal Regulations” is a reference to the Pupils' Registration Regulations 1956[^f00003].

3

For paragraph 2(c) of regulation 3 of the principal Regulations, there shall be substituted the following—

(c) The name and address of every person known to the proprietor of the school to be a parent of the pupil; and against the entry on the register of the particulars of any parent who has the actual custody of the pupil, an indication of that fact and a note of at least one telephone number at which the parent can be contacted in the event of an emergency;

Signed

Kenneth Baker — Secretary of State for Education and Science — 6th July 1988

Wyn Roberts — Minister of State, Welsh Office — 7th July 1988

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Pupils' Registration Regulations 1956 (as amended) make provision for an Admission Register and (in most cases) for an Attendance Register to be maintained by the proprietor of every school.

These Regulations amend those 1956 Regulations so that the Admission Register will be required to include particulars, in respect of each pupil, of the name and address of every person known to the proprietor to be a parent of the pupil and, against the entry containing particulars of a parent who has the actual custody of the pupil, an indication of that fact and a note of a telephone number at which the parent can be contacted in the event of an emergency.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1944 c. 31; section 80 was repealed in part and extended by the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948 (c. 40), section 4 and Schedule 2; and was amended by the Education Act 1980 (c. 20), Schedule 1, paragraph 1.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1964/490, 1970/1536, 1978/274.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1956/357, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.