New Zealand Legislation: Acts

7 Additional restrictions on enrolment at correspondence school

• (1) The Minister may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, fix criteria for enrolment in early childhood, primary, and secondary classes at correspondence school; and different criteria may be fixed for all or any of the following:

  • (a) different correspondence schools:

  • (b) correspondence schools of different classes or descriptions:

  • (c) early childhood, primary, and secondary classes at correspondence school.

  (2) No person shall be enrolled at a correspondence school unless—

  • (a) the board is satisfied that the person's enrolment meets criteria then fixed under subsection (1); or

  • (b) the person is entitled under section 3 to free education at a State school, and the Secretary has directed the board to enrol the person.

  (3) The Secretary shall not direct the board of a correspondence school to enrol a person unless satisfied that the person cannot conveniently attend any State school (being a school offering education at the level, and in the subjects, required by the person's parents or, as the case requires, the person) that is not a correspondence school.

  (4) If satisfied that a person who is enrolled at a correspondence school pursuant to a direction under subsection (2)(b) can conveniently attend a State school (being a school offering education at the level, and in the subjects, required by the person's parents or, as the case requires, the person) that is not a correspondence school, the Secretary may notify the board of the fact; and in that case the board shall cancel the person's enrolment unless the board is satisfied that the person's enrolment meets criteria then fixed under subsection (1).

  (5) If satisfied that—

  • (a) a person's enrolment at a correspondence school does not meet criteria then fixed under subsection (1); and

  • (b) there is not in force in respect of the person a direction under subsection (2)(b) relating to the school,—

  the board shall cancel the enrolment.

  (6) The board of a correspondence school may delegate to the principal the task of being satisfied that enrolments meet or do not meet criteria specified under subsection (1).

  (7) Every person lawfully enrolled at a correspondence school immediately before the commencement of this Act who is entitled under section 3 to free education at a State school shall be deemed to have been so enrolled pursuant to a direction given under subsection (2)(b) on that commencement.

  Compare: 1964 No 135 s 110