Education and Training Act 2020

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75 Additional entitlement to enrol in certain circumstances

(1)

Despite section 74, the Secretary may authorise an enrolment scheme to permit a student to enrol at the school as if the student lived in the home zone of the school if,—

(a)

in the case of an existing enrolment scheme whose home zone is amended,—

(i)

the student lives outside the amended home zone; and

(ii)

the student has a sibling who is enrolled at the school at the time that the amendment is implemented; and

(iii)

the sibling, at the time that the amendment is implemented, lives inside the home zone as it was before the amendment; and

(iv)

the student, at the time of enrolment, lives inside the home zone as it was before the amendment:

(b)

in the case of a new enrolment scheme, the student—

(i)

lives outside of the home zone of the new enrolment scheme; and

(ii)

has a sibling who is enrolled at the school at the time that the new enrolment scheme is implemented.

(2)

Before granting an authorisation under subsection (1), the Secretary must be satisfied that doing so—

(a)

is in the best interests of the school and local community; and

(b)

can be managed within the existing school network.

(3)

For the purposes of this section, child A is the sibling of child B if—

(a)

both children have the same parent; or

(b)

a parent of child A is married to, or in a civil union with, a parent of child B; or

(c)

a parent of child A was married to, or in a civil union with, a parent of child B at the time when child B’s parent died; or

(d)

a parent of child A is the de facto partner of a parent of child B; or

(e)

both children live in the same household and, in recognition of family obligations, are treated by the adults of that household as if they were siblings; or

(f)

the Secretary, by written notice to the school, advises that child A is to be treated as the sibling of child B.

Compare: 1989 No 80 s 11F(3)