New Zealand Legislation: Acts

28 Secretary may require parents of certain children to enrol them at correspondence school

• (1) The Secretary, by notice in writing to the parent of a student—

  • (a) who has a certificate of exemption for the student under subparagraph (i) or subparagraph (ii) of section 26(1)(b); or

  • (b) who has been directed under section 16(7)(c) to enrol the student at a correspondence school,—

  may call on the parent to have the student enrolled at a correspondence school specified in the notice, and ensure that the student does the work of the course in which the student is enrolled.

  (2) Enrolment under subsection (1) shall be—

  • (a) for the period of exemption, in the case of a student exempted under section 26(1)(b); and

  • (b) until the student turns 16, or for a shorter period specified in the notice, in every other case.

  (3) A parent who fails to comply with a notice under subsection (1) to have a student enrolled at a correspondence school commits an offence, and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the maximum fine provided for in section 24(1) (which relates to the failure to enrol at a registered school).

  Compare: 1969 No 135 s 119

  Section 28(2)(b): amended, on 1 January 1993, by section 5(2) of the Education Amendment Act (No 4) 1991 (1991 No 136).