{"id":"school-education-regulations-2000","name":"School Education Regulations 2000","slug":"school-education-regulations-2000","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"wa","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":181971,"registerId":"wa-school-education-regulations-2000-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"Part 1","sectionType":"part","heading":"Preliminary","content":"Part 1 — Preliminary\n\n1. Citation 1\n\n2. Commencement 1\n\n3. Terms used 1\n\n4. Notes etc. not part of regulations 5\n\n","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"Part 2","sectionType":"part","heading":"Enrolment and attendance","content":"Part 2 — Enrolment and attendance\n\n","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"Div 1","sectionType":"division","heading":"Enrolment, all schools","content":"Division 1 — Enrolment, all schools\n\n5. Prescribed information required when applying to enrol (Act s. 16(1)(h)) 6\n\n6. Information prescribed, for enrolment register (Act s. 19(a)) 6\n\n7. Period prescribed, for retention of particulars (Act s. 19(b)) 7\n\n8. Closed school, CEO’s duties as to enrolment particulars of 7\n\n9. Permanent retention of government school enrolment particulars 7\n\n10. Permanent retention of non-government school enrolment particulars 8\n\n11. Child changing schools, new principal to inform old principal of 8\n\n","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"Div 1A","sectionType":"division","heading":"Options under Part 2 Division 1 Subdivision 1A of the Act in final years of compulsory education","content":"Division 1A — Options under Part 2 Division 1 Subdivision 1A of the Act in final years of compulsory education\n\n11A. Term used: option 9\n\n11B. When participation in one option is full-time (Act s. 11C) 9\n\n11C. When participation in 2 or more options is full-time (Act s. 11C) 9\n\n11D. Arrangements notified under Act s. 11D, exception to duty to notify variation of 10\n\n","sortOrder":3},{"sectionNumber":"Div 2","sectionType":"division","heading":"Enrolment, government schools","content":"Division 2 — Enrolment, government schools\n\n12. Criteria prescribed (Act s. 76(2)), child in exchange programme 11\n\n13. Criteria prescribed (Act s. 76(2)), dependent of scholarship holder 11\n\n14. Criteria prescribed (Act s. 76(2)), child of certain defence personnel 11\n\n14A. Criteria prescribed (Act s. 76(2)): holder of or applicant for Schedule 2 visa 12\n\n15. Too many children for pre‑compulsory education at a government school, priority for enrolment in case of 12\n\n16. Too many children outside intake area for a local-intake school, priority of enrolment in case of 14\n\n18. Criteria prescribed for School of Isolated and Distance Education (Act s. 79(1)(b)) 15\n\n19. Enrolment of person after compulsory education period (Act s. 81(2)) 15\n\n20. Enrolment at government school of persons who do not have an entitlement to enrol under s. 76 16\n\n","sortOrder":4},{"sectionNumber":"Div 3","sectionType":"division","heading":"Attendance","content":"Division 3 — Attendance\n\n21. Period prescribed for retention of attendance records (Act s. 28(1)(b)) 17\n\n22. Closed school, CEO’s duties as to attendance records of 17\n\n23. Identification badge for school attendance officer, form of prescribed (Act s. 34(4)) 17\n\n","sortOrder":5},{"sectionNumber":"Part 3","sectionType":"part","heading":"Management of government schools","content":"Part 3 — Management of government schools\n\nDivision 1 — Hours of instruction\n\n24. Minimum hours prescribed for instruction of child in kindergarten programme (Act s. 123(2)(b)) 19\n\n25. Minimum hours prescribed for instruction of child in pre‑primary programme (Act s. 123(2)(b)) 19\n\n26. Minimum hours prescribed for instruction of child in primary or secondary programme (Act s. 123(2)(b)) 19\n\n27. Periods prescribed under r. 24, 25 and 26, calculation of 20\n\nDivision 2 — Health, safety and cleanliness\n\n28. Student with medical condition, principal’s powers in case of 20\n\n29. Head lice inspection, principal may authorise etc. 21\n\n30. Student with clothing etc. likely to be hazard in school activity, principal’s powers in case of 21\n\n31. Student’s hygiene likely to affect others, principal’s powers in case of 22\n\n32. Parent etc. to be advised of action taken under r. 29(2), 30 or 31 22\n\nDivision 3 — School dress codes and codes of conduct\n\n","sortOrder":6},{"sectionNumber":"Subdiv 1","sectionType":"subdivision","heading":"School dress codes","content":"Subdivision 1 — School dress codes\n\n33. Matters which may be provided for in dress code (Act s. 140(d)(i)) 23\n\n34. Students etc. to be informed of dress code 23\n\n35. Exempting student from dress code, grounds for etc. (Act s. 140(d)(iii)) 23\n\n36. Enforcing dress code, powers for 25\n\n","sortOrder":7},{"sectionNumber":"Subdiv 2","sectionType":"subdivision","heading":"Codes of conduct","content":"Subdivision 2 — Codes of conduct\n\n37. School’s code of conduct, content of 27\n\n","sortOrder":8},{"sectionNumber":"Div 4","sectionType":"division","heading":"Supervision of students, protection of persons and property","content":"Division 4 — Supervision of students, protection of persons and property\n\n38. Staff member’s powers to manage etc. students 27\n\n","sortOrder":9},{"sectionNumber":"Div 5","sectionType":"division","heading":"Discipline","content":"Division 5 — Discipline\n\nSubdivision 1 — Discipline other than suspension\n\n40. School discipline, principal’s general powers as to breaches of 28\n\n41. School administrator’s disciplinary powers 28\n\n42. Detention, rules for imposing etc. 29\n\nSubdivision 2 — Suspension\n\n43. Maximum period of suspension prescribed (Act s. 90(1)) 30\n\n44. Suspension, rules for imposing etc. (Act s. 90(2)) 31\n\n45. Suspension for 10 days or more in school year, principal’s duty in case of 32\n\n46. Educational instruction for certain suspended students (Act s. 90(3)) 32\n\n46A. Suspension of student charged with or convicted of sexual offence 32\n\n","sortOrder":10},{"sectionNumber":"Div 6","sectionType":"division","heading":"Special religious education","content":"Division 6 — Special religious education\n\n47. Provision of special religious education (Act s. 69(1)) 34\n\n48. Who can give special religious education (Act s. 69(3)) 34\n\n","sortOrder":11},{"sectionNumber":"Div 7","sectionType":"division","heading":"Advertising and sponsorship","content":"Division 7 — Advertising and sponsorship\n\n49. Term used: arrangement 35\n\n50. Arrangements, form and duration of 35\n\n51. Arrangements, limitations on content of 35\n\n52. Naming rights in arrangement 36\n\n53. Teaching materials provided under arrangement 37\n\n","sortOrder":12},{"sectionNumber":"Div 8","sectionType":"division","heading":"Disputes and complaints","content":"Division 8 — Disputes and complaints\n\n54. Term used: scheme 37\n\n55. Scheme for dealing with disputes and complaints, establishing 37\n\n56. Protection of complainants etc. from civil liability 38\n\n57. Detrimental action against complainant etc., offence 39\n\n","sortOrder":13},{"sectionNumber":"Part 4","sectionType":"part","heading":"Financial provisions for government schools","content":"Part 4 — Financial provisions for government schools\n\nDivision 1 — Charges and contributions\n\n58. Terms used 40\n\n59. Materials for which there can be a charge or contribution (Act s. 99) 40\n\n60. Services and facilities for which there can be a charge or contribution (Act s. 99) 41\n\n61. Limits on charges and contributions (Act s. 99(3)(b)) 41\n\nDivision 2 — Overseas and adult students\n\n62. Criterion prescribed (Act s. 97 *overseas student*) 43\n\n63. Fees for instruction prescribed (Act s. 103) 43\n\n64. Exemption from r. 63 fees for some adult students 44\n\n65. CEO may waive r. 63 fees for some overseas students 45\n\n66. CEO may waive r. 63 fees for some adult students 45\n\n","sortOrder":14},{"sectionNumber":"Part 5","sectionType":"part","heading":"Management and control of government school premises","content":"Part 5 — Management and control of government school premises\n\n67. Application of this Part 46\n\nDivision 2 — Giving name and address\n\n68. Non-student on school premises, power to obtain name and address of 47\n\nDivision 3 — Maintaining good order on school premises\n\n69. Maintaining good order etc., principal’s general powers for 47\n\nDivision 4 — Things on school premises\n\n70. Principal’s powers to prohibit and regulate things 48\n\n71. Confiscating property from students, powers for 50\n\nDivision 5 — Permission to use school premises\n\n72. Permitting public to use school premises 51\n\nDivision 6 — Orders to leave school premises\n\n73. Term used: authorised person 52\n\n74. Principal’s authority prevails 52\n\n75. Ordering non-student or student to leave school premises 52\n\n76. Circumstances allowing r. 75 order 53\n\n77. Ordering person to remove animal from school premises 54\n\nDivision 7 — Prohibiting persons from entering school premises\n\n78. Prohibition order, principal may make 54\n\n79. Certain persons not to be prohibited by order from school premises 55\n\n80. Breach of prohibition order, offence 56\n\n81. *Restraining Orders Act 1997* not affected 56\n\nDivision 8 — Closure of school premises\n\n82. Temporary closure of school premises, principal or security coordinator may order 56\n\n83. Steps to be taken if r. 82(1) order made 57\n\n84. Offences as to r. 82(1) order 58\n\n85. Minister may override r. 82(1) order 59\n\n","sortOrder":15},{"sectionNumber":"Div 9","sectionType":"division","heading":"Traffic control on school premises","content":"Division 9 — Traffic control on school premises\n\n86. Terms used 59\n\n87. Signs etc. for traffic control, principal may erect etc. 59\n\n88. Authorised person may direct drivers etc. 60\n\n89. Traffic offences 61\n\n90. Local laws as to parking not affected 61\n\n","sortOrder":16},{"sectionNumber":"Div 10","sectionType":"division","heading":"Management of property left on school premises","content":"Division 10 — Management of property left on school premises\n\n91. Term used: authorised person 61\n\n92. Principal’s authority prevails 61\n\n93. Removing and moving vehicles, authorised person’s powers for 62\n\n94. Authorised person’s powers to remove or move vehicles 62\n\n95. Lost, discarded or disused property, principal’s functions as to; ownership of 63\n\n96. Unclaimed lost etc. property, disposal of 64\n\n97. Costs etc. of removing etc. vehicle or property, recovering 64\n\n","sortOrder":17},{"sectionNumber":"Div 11","sectionType":"division","heading":"Review of decisions made under this Part","content":"Division 11 — Review of decisions made under this Part\n\n98. Decision under r. 72(1) to refuse use of school premises, review of 65\n\n99. Other decisions under this Part, review of 66\n\n100. Prohibition order, review of 67\n\n101. Matters applicable to reviews under this Division 67\n\n","sortOrder":18},{"sectionNumber":"Div 12","sectionType":"division","heading":"Fees for the use of school premises","content":"Division 12 — Fees for the use of school premises\n\n102. Fees for residential accommodation on school premises 68\n\n","sortOrder":19},{"sectionNumber":"Part 6","sectionType":"part","heading":"Government school Councils","content":"Part 6 — Government school Councils\n\n103. Term used: school 69\n\nDivision 2 — Constitution of Councils\n\n104. Interim Council, appointment of etc. 69\n\n105. Class of school prescribed (Act s. 127(1)(d)); which students can be on Council 69\n\n106. Number of members prescribed (Act s. 127(5)(b)) 70\n\n107. Composition of Council, how determined (Act s. 127(5)(b)) 70\n\n108. Members, appointment and election of (Act s. 127(5)(c)) 71\n\n109. Who can vote in election of members 72\n\n110. Term of office prescribed (Act s. 127(5)(d)) 73\n\n111. When vacancy occurs 74\n\n112. Co‑opting members 75\n\nDivision 3 — Functions of Councils\n\n113. Functions prescribed that Minister may approve for incorporated Council (Act s. 130(1)) 75\n\n114. Council operating for 2 or more schools, performance of functions by 75\n\nDivision 4 — Proceedings of Councils\n\n115. Meetings, when to be held; open to public 76\n\n116. Grounds for closing meeting to public 76\n\n117. Annual public meeting 77\n\n118. Special meeting called for by families of students or by students 77\n\n119. Voting 78\n\nDivision 5 — Transitional provision as to Councils\n\n120. Certain Councils to comply with Act s. 127 and this Part Div. 2 and 4 by 1 July 2003 79\n\n","sortOrder":20},{"sectionNumber":"Part 7","sectionType":"part","heading":"Parents and Citizens’ Associations of government schools","content":"Part 7 — Parents and Citizens’ Associations of government schools\n\n121. Term used: association 80\n\n122. CEO’s approval required for certain activities by association 80\n\n123. CEO may close or abolish facilities etc. provided by association 80\n\n124. Constitution of association to contain certain provisions 81\n\n","sortOrder":21},{"sectionNumber":"Part 8","sectionType":"part","heading":"Staff employed in the department","content":"Part 8 — Staff employed in the department\n\nDivision 1 — General\n\n125. Probation period for teaching staff etc. engaged under Act s. 236(2) 82\n\n126. Inefficient teachers under repealed r. 86A, transitional provision for 82\n\nDivision 2 — Teaching staff\n\n127. Offices etc. prescribed to be school administrators (Act s. 237(a)(ii)) 82\n\n127A. Classes of teaching staff prescribed (Act s. 237(c)) 83\n\n","sortOrder":22},{"sectionNumber":"Part 9","sectionType":"part","heading":"Non‑government schools","content":"Part 9 — Non‑government schools\n\n128. Kinds of establishments that are not schools (Act s. 154(2)(c)) 84\n\n129. Significant registration changes (Act s. 156) 85\n\n130. Consultation procedures prescribed (Act s. 157C(2)(d)) 86\n\n130A. Transitional provision for *School Education Amendment Regulations 2020* 87\n\n131A. Other matters about which standards may be determined (Act s. 159(1)(n)) 88\n\n131. Consultation procedures prescribed (Act s. 159(2)) 88\n\n","sortOrder":23},{"sectionNumber":"Part 10","sectionType":"part","heading":"Community kindergartens","content":"Part 10 — Community kindergartens\n\n132. Terms used 89\n\nDivision 2 — Registration of kindergartens\n\n133. Matters prescribed to be considered by Minister when determining registration of kindergarten (Act s. 194(1)(d)) 89\n\nDivision 3 — Management of kindergartens\n\n134. Functions of teaching staff prescribed (Act s. 205(1)(g)) 90\n\n135. When kindergarten to be open 90\n\n136. Enrolment at kindergarten (Act s. 206(2)(b)) 90\n\n137. Minimum hours of instruction for children in kindergarten programme 92\n\n138. Enrolment register to be kept and retained 92\n\n139. Permanent retention of kindergarten enrolment particulars 93\n\nDivision 4 — Financial provisions for kindergartens\n\nSubdivision 1 — Contributions and costs\n\n140. What contributions may be sought (Act s. 207) 93\n\n141. Contributions, determining and limits on (Act s. 207) 94\n\n142. Extra cost optional component, cost of etc. (Act s. 207) 94\n\n143. Items for child’s personal use to be supplied by child 95\n\n144. Approval and notification of determinations 95\n\nSubdivision 2 — Allocation of moneys appropriated by Parliament\n\n145. Classes of children prescribed (Act s. 210(2)(b)) 96\n\n146. Allocation of moneys appropriated by Parliament (Act s. 210(3)) 97\n\n","sortOrder":24},{"sectionNumber":"Part 11","sectionType":"part","heading":"Miscellaneous","content":"Part 11 — Miscellaneous\n\n147. Independent minor, designation of child as 98\n\n148A. Anaphylactic reaction in child, treatment of by staff member 99\n\n148. Exemption from regulations, grant etc. of by Minister 100\n\n149. Limits on charges etc., CEO to review regularly 101\n\nSchedule 1 — Scholarships\n\nSchedule 2 — Entitlement to enrolment at government school\n\nDivision 1 — Visas held by child or person on whom child is dependent\n\nDivision 2 — Visas for which child or person on whom child is dependent has validly applied\n\nSchedule 3A — Overseas students with entitlement to enrolment at government school\n\nNotes\n\nCompilation table 107\n\nDefined terms\n\n  \n\nSchool Education Act 1999\n\n## Part 1 — Preliminary\n\n##### 1. Citation\n\nThese regulations may be cited as the *School Education Regulations 2000*.\n\n##### 2. Commencement\n\nThese regulations come into operation on 1 January 2001.\n\n##### 3. Terms used\n\n(1) In these regulations —\n\nadult student has the meaning given by section 97;\n\nAustralian Immunisation Register means the register called the Australian Immunisation Register kept under the *Australian Immunisation Register Act 2015* (Commonwealth) section 8;\n\nbreach of school discipline has the meaning given by section 89;\n\ncampus, in relation to a registered school, means the school premises, or if the school is located in more than one place, the school premises at each of those places;\n\ncode of conduct, in relation to a school, means a code of conduct formulated for students at the school as referred to in section 128(c);\n\ndress code, in relation to a school, means the dress code determined under section 128(d) by the school’s Council;\n\nfirst charges payment year has the meaning given by section 97;\n\ngoverning body, in relation to a school or proposed school, has the meaning given by section 150;\n\ngoverning body, in relation to a kindergarten or a proposed kindergarten, has the meaning given by section 191;\n\nindependent minor means a child designated as such under regulation 147(1);\n\nkindergarten programme means an educational programme the content and implementation of which are designed for children in their pre‑compulsory education period;\n\nlicence means a licence to which section 218 applies;\n\nlink school, in relation to a kindergarten, means the school of the principal who is nominated under section 205(1)(d) in respect of that kindergarten;\n\n  member of staff**,** in relation to a government school, means a person —\n\n(a) employed in the department and referred to in section 235(1)(a), (b), (c) or (d); and\n\n(b) whose functions relate to the school;\n\noutline of curriculum and assessment means the outline of curriculum and assessment in schools established by the School Curriculum and Standards Authority under the *School Curriculum and Standards Authority Act 1997*;\n\noverseas student has the meaning given by section 97;\n\nNote for this definition:\n\nThe criterion for the definition of “overseas student” is prescribed in regulation 62.\n\nPart 4 CEO means the chief executive officer to whom section 151 applies;\n\npolicy direction means a policy direction issued under section 157C;\n\npre‑primary programme means an educational programme the content and implementation of which are designed for children in the first year of their compulsory education period;\n\nprimary programme  means an educational programme the content and implementation of which are designed for children in the second to seventh years of their compulsory education period;\n\nprohibition order means an order made under regulation 78(1);\n\nregistrar, in relation to a school, means a person appointed under section 235(1)(a) or (c) as the registrar, the bursar or the business manager of the school;\n\n","sortOrder":25},{"sectionNumber":"Sch 3A","sectionType":"schedule","heading":"visa holder means a child who —","content":"Schedule 3A visa holder means a child who —\n\n(a) holds a visa of a kind set out in Schedule 3A; or\n\n(b) is a dependent child of a person who holds a visa of a kind set out in Schedule 3A;\n\nschool administrator, in relation to a school, means a person referred to in section 237(a)(i) or (ii) in respect of that school;\n\nNote for this definition:\n\nThe offices or positions referred to in section 237(a)(ii) are prescribed by regulation 127.\n\nschool premises has the meaning given by section 119(1);\n\nschool’s premises, in relation to a school, means the school premises of that school;\n\nsecondary programme means an educational programme the content and implementation of which are designed for children in the eighth to thirteenth years of their compulsory education period;\n\nsection means section of the Act;\n\nsecurity coordinator means the person employed in the department as the person in charge of the coordination of the security of school premises;\n\n  serious breach of school discipline means a breach of school discipline —\n\n(a) of a kind that is, or that is committed in circumstances that are —\n\n(i) set out in the school’s code of conduct as a serious breach of school discipline; or\n\n(ii) referred to in a direction under section 232 or CEO’s Instructions under section 233 as a serious breach of school discipline;\n\nor\n\n(b) that adversely affects, or threatens, the safety of a person at the school;\n\nsibling, in relation to a person —\n\n(a) means a brother or sister of the person (whether of the whole or half blood or whether it is a natural relationship or a relationship established by a written law); or\n\n(b) where the spouse or de facto partner of the person’s parent is not the person’s parent, means a child of that spouse or de facto partner whose usual place of residence is the same as that of the person;\n\nspecialist programme means an educational programme approved by the chief executive officer as a specialist programme;\n\nvaccine preventable notifiable infectious disease  has the meaning given in the *Public Health Act 2016* section 4(1);\n\nvehicle has the meaning given in the *Road Traffic (Administration) Act 2008* section 4;\n\nvisa means a visa under the *Migration Act 1958* of the Commonwealth.\n\nNote for this section:\n\nA word used in these regulations may have the same meaning as it has under the *School Education Act 1999*: *Interpretation Act 1984* s. 44(1).\n\n(2) A reference in these regulations to a person responsible for a student is a reference to a person whose details have been provided under section 16(1)(b)(ii)(II) in relation to the student.\n\n[Regulation 3 amended: Gazette 17 Dec 2002 p. 5906; 30 Jun 2003 p. 2632; 24 Aug 2007 p. 4318; 14 Aug 2012 p. 3831; 11 Nov 2014 p. 4255‑6; 8 Jan 2015 p. 104; 16 Jan 2015 p. 312; 21 Dec 2018 p. 4853; 19 Jul 2019 p. 2844.]\n\n##### 4. Notes etc. not part of regulations\n\nNotes and examples in these regulations are provided to assist understanding and do not form part of the regulations.\n\n## Part 2 — Enrolment and attendance\n\n### Division 1 — Enrolment, all schools\n\n##### 5. Prescribed information required when applying to enrol (Act s. 16(1)(h))\n\nThe following information is prescribed for the purposes of section 16(1)(h) —\n\n(a) information as to who is to be contacted in emergency situations that affect the enrollee and contact details for the relevant persons;\n\n(b) if the enrollee has a Medicare number, the Medicare number of the enrollee.\n\n[Regulation 5 inserted: Gazette 19 Jul 2019 p. 2844-5.]\n\n##### 6. Information prescribed, for enrolment register (Act s. 19(a))\n\n(1) The information prescribed for the purposes of section 19(a) is as follows —\n\n(a) the name of the enrollee;\n\n(b) the date of birth of the enrollee;\n\n(c) the date of enrolment of the enrollee;\n\n(d) the date on which the enrolment ceases;\n\n(e) any immunisation status of the enrollee given in accordance with the *Public Health Act 2016* section 141B;\n\n(f) if the enrollee has a Medicare number, the Medicare number of the enrollee.\n\n(2) The information referred to in subregulation (1) may be retained in an electronic form but must be able to be reproduced in written form.\n\n[Regulation 6 amended: Gazette 21 Dec 2018 p. 4853; 19 Jul 2019 p. 2845.]\n\n##### 7. Period prescribed, for retention of particulars (Act s. 19(b))\n\nThe particulars recorded in a register under section 19(a) in relation to a particular student are to be retained for 7 years from the day on which the student’s enrolment ceases.\n\n##### 8. Closed school, CEO’s duties as to enrolment particulars of\n\n(1) If a government school closes before the period referred to in regulation 7 expires, the chief executive officer is to ensure that the particulars referred to in that regulation are retained for the period.\n\n(2) If a non‑government school closes before the period referred to in regulation 7 expires, the Part 4 CEO is to ensure that the particulars referred to in that regulation are retained for the period.\n\n##### 9. Permanent retention of government school enrolment particulars\n\n(1) When the period referred to in regulation 7 expires in relation to particulars recorded in a government school’s register, the chief executive officer —\n\n(a) is to take such action as is within the chief executive officer’s power to cause the particulars to be retained permanently as State archives under the *State Records Act 2000*; or\n\n(b) if the particulars are not to be retained permanently as State archives under that Act, is to ensure that the particulars are otherwise retained permanently, in so far as is practicable.\n\n(2) If it is not practicable to retain permanently the particulars referred to in subregulation (1)(b) the particulars must not be disposed of or destroyed without the authority of the chief executive officer.\n\n(3) This regulation applies whether or not the school referred to in subregulation (1) has closed.\n\n[Regulation 9 amended: Gazette 11 Nov 2014 p. 4256.]\n\n##### 10. Permanent retention of non-government school enrolment particulars\n\n(1) When the period referred to in regulation 7 expires in relation to particulars recorded in the register of a non‑government school, the Part 4 CEO is to ensure that the particulars are retained permanently, in so far as is practicable.\n\n(2) If it is not practicable to retain permanently the particulars referred to in subregulation (1), the particulars must not be disposed of or destroyed without the authority of the Part 4 CEO.\n\n(3) This regulation applies whether or not the school referred to in subregulation (1) has closed.\n\n[Regulation 10 amended: Gazette 11 Nov 2014 p. 4256‑7.]\n\n##### 11. Child changing schools, new principal to inform old principal of\n\nIf —\n\n(a) a child of compulsory school age is enrolled at a school; and\n\n(b) the school at which the child was last enrolled is within Western Australia,\n\nthe principal of the school mentioned in paragraph (a) is to inform the principal of the school mentioned in paragraph (b), by such means as are approved by the chief executive officer, that the child is enrolled at the school mentioned in paragraph (a).\n\n### Division 1A — Options under Part 2 Division 1 Subdivision 1A of the Act in final years of compulsory education\n\n[Heading inserted: Gazette 11 Nov 2014 p. 4257.]\n\n##### 11A. Term used: option\n\n  option means an option provided for by section 11B(1).\n\n[Regulation 11A inserted: Gazette 23 Dec 2005 p. 6254.]\n\n##### 11B. When participation in one option is full-time (Act s. 11C)\n\nFor the purposes of section 11C(1), participation by a child in an option is on a full‑time basis if the participation is full‑time according to the requirements laid down by the provider for participation in the course or employment concerned.\n\n[Regulation 11B inserted: Gazette 23 Dec 2005 p. 6254.]\n\n##### 11C. When participation in 2 or more options is full-time (Act s. 11C)\n\n  course includes part‑time studies at a school.\n\n(2) For the purposes of section 11C(1), participation by a child in a combination of options is on a full‑time basis if the total participation value of all of the options is not less than 100%.\n\n(3) The participation value of part‑time participation in a course or employment is the proportion, expressed as a percentage, that the part‑time participation bears to full‑time participation in the course or employment.\n\n(4) The proportion referred to in subregulation (3) is to be determined by the Minister having regard to —\n\n(a) the requirements laid down by the provider for participation in the course or employment concerned; and\n\n(b) any time spent travelling between providers’ locations, to the extent that the Minister considers that the length of time so spent is significant.\n\n[Regulation 11C inserted: Gazette 23 Dec 2005 p. 6254‑5.]\n\n##### 11D. Arrangements notified under Act s. 11D, exception to duty to notify variation of\n\n  arrangements previously notified means —\n\n(a) arrangements that have been notified to the Minister under section 11D(1); and\n\n(b) employment that has been notified to the Minister under section 11H(1) of the Act;\n\n  participation value has the meaning given by regulation 11C(3).\n\n(2) This regulation provides for an exception to the requirement under section 11D(4) that notice be given to the Minister of a variation or proposed variation of arrangements previously notified.\n\n(3) The exception applies where —\n\n(a) the variation does not result; or\n\n(b) the proposed variation would not result,\n\nin participation in an option or a combination of options ceasing to be on a full‑time basis, but only if there is no change of provider or in the participation value of any option.\n\n(4) The exception in subregulation (3) also does not apply if the variation results, or the proposed variation would result, in a breach of any condition imposed by the Minister under section 11G(5).\n\n[Regulation 11D inserted: Gazette 23 Dec 2005 p. 6255.]\n\n### Division 2 — Enrolment, government schools\n\n##### 12. Criteria prescribed (Act s. 76(2)), child in exchange programme\n\nFor the purposes of section 76(2), a child who is not entitled to reside permanently in Australia is entitled to be enrolled at a government school if —\n\n(b) the child is involved in the International Secondary Student Exchange Programme.\n\n[Regulation 12 inserted: Gazette 17 Dec 2002 p. 5907.]\n\n##### 13. Criteria prescribed (Act s. 76(2)), dependent of scholarship holder\n\nFor the purposes of section 76(2), a child who is not entitled to reside permanently in Australia is entitled to be enrolled at a government school if —\n\n(b) the child is a dependent of a person who is the holder of a scholarship of a kind set out in Schedule 1.\n\n[Regulation 13 inserted: Gazette 17 Dec 2002 p. 5907.]\n\n##### 14. Criteria prescribed (Act s. 76(2)), child of certain defence personnel\n\nFor the purposes of section 76(2), a child who is not entitled to reside permanently in Australia is entitled to be enrolled at a government school if —\n\n(b) the child, or a person in respect of whom the child is a dependent child, is entitled to reside temporarily in Australia under the Status of Forces Agreement signed at Canberra on 9 May 1963.\n\n[Regulation 14 inserted: Gazette 17 Dec 2002 p. 5907.]\n\n##### 14A. Criteria prescribed (Act s. 76(2)): holder of or applicant for Schedule 2 visa\n\nFor the purposes of section 76(2), a child who is not entitled to reside permanently in Australia is entitled to be enrolled at a government school if —\n\n(b) the child or a person in respect of whom the child is a dependent child —\n\n(i) holds a visa of a kind set out in Schedule 2 Division 1; or\n\n(ii) has applied for a visa of a kind set out in Schedule 2 Division 2 and has received a letter from the Department of State of the Commonwealth assisting in the administration of the *Migration Act 1958* (Commonwealth) confirming that the application is valid.\n\n[Regulation 14A inserted: Gazette 17 Dec 2002 p. 5907‑8; amended: SL 2020/101 r. 4.]\n\n##### 15. Too many children for pre‑compulsory education at a government school, priority for enrolment in case of\n\n(1) If the number of children in their pre‑compulsory education period applying for enrolment at a particular local‑intake school for a particular year exceeds the number of available places at the school, priority for enrolment is to be given in the following order —\n\n(a) to a child whose usual place of residence is in the intake area for the school —\n\n(i) who has a sibling who is enrolled at the school for that year; and\n\n(b) to a child whose usual place of residence is in the intake area for the school —\n\n(i) who does not have a sibling who is enrolled at the school for that year; and\n\n(c) to a child whose usual place of residence is not in the intake area for the school —\n\n(i) who has a sibling who is enrolled at the school for that year; and\n\n(d) to a child whose usual place of residence is not in the intake area for the school —\n\n(i) who does not have a sibling who is enrolled at the school for that year; and\n\n(ii) who lives nearest the school.\n\n(2) If the number of children in their pre‑compulsory education period applying for enrolment at a particular government school that is not a local‑intake school for a particular year exceeds the number of available places at the school, priority for enrolment is to be given to the child who lives nearest the school.\n\n[Regulation 15 inserted: Gazette 10 Oct 2003 p. 4401‑2.]\n\n##### 16. Too many children outside intake area for a local-intake school, priority of enrolment in case of\n\n(1) This regulation applies to children —\n\n(a) who are of compulsory school age; and\n\n(b) whose usual place of residence is not in the intake area for a particular local‑intake school.\n\n(2) If the number of children referred to in subregulation (1) applying for enrolment at a the local‑intake school for a particular year exceeds the number of available places at the school, priority for enrolment is to be given in the following order —\n\n(a) to a child who qualifies to participate in a specialist programme at that school for that year;\n\n(b) to a child —\n\n(i) who has a sibling who is enrolled at the school for that year other than a sibling who is enrolled at the school to participate in a specialist programme; and\n\n(c) to a child —\n\n(i) who —\n\n(I) does not have a sibling who is enrolled at the school for that year; or\n\n(II) has a sibling who is enrolled at the school for that year to participate in a specialist programme;\n\nand\n\n(ii) who lives nearest the school.\n\n[**17.** Deleted: Gazette 11 Nov 2014 p. 4257.]\n\n##### 18. Criteria prescribed for School of Isolated and Distance Education (Act s. 79(1)(b))\n\nThe following criteria are prescribed for the purposes of section 79(1)(b) in relation to entitlement to enrolment at a School of Isolated and Distance Education —\n\n(a) the child cannot be reasonably expected to attend, or participate in an educational programme of, any other government school;\n\n(b) the School has sufficient resources to make an appropriate educational programme available for the child at the School.\n\n[Regulation 18 inserted: Gazette 17 Dec 2002 p. 5908; amended: Gazette 11 Nov 2014 p. 4257.]\n\n##### 19. Enrolment of person after compulsory education period (Act s. 81(2))\n\n(1) This regulation is prescribed for the purposes of section 81(2).\n\n(2) The chief executive officer is not to approve the enrolment of a person under section 81(1) at a government school unless there is available for the person at the school —\n\n(a) an appropriate educational programme; and\n\n(b) classroom accommodation.\n\n(3) The chief executive officer is not to approve the enrolment of a person under section 81(1) without having regard to the person’s —\n\n(a) educational history; and\n\n(b) individual circumstances; and\n\n(c) record of past behaviour as a student and attitude to school.\n\n(4) The chief executive officer is to have regard to the matters referred to in subregulation (5) when deciding whether or not to approve the enrolment of an adult person under section 81(1) —\n\n(a) at a government school that will also be attended by a child of compulsory school age; or\n\n(b) in an educational programme of a government school that will be also be participated in by a child of compulsory school age.\n\n(5) The matters to which the chief executive officer is to have regard are —\n\n(a) whether the person has been convicted or otherwise found guilty of an offence whether or not —\n\n(i) the conviction or finding was made in Western Australia; or\n\n(ii) the offence was committed in or outside Western Australia;\n\nand\n\n(b) whether any charge in relation to an offence, whether committed in or outside Western Australia, is outstanding or whether any proceeding in relation to such an offence is pending.\n\n[Regulation 19 amended: Gazette 11 Nov 2014 p. 4261.]\n\n##### 20. Enrolment at government school of persons who do not have an entitlement to enrol under s. 76\n\nA person may be enrolled at a government school, even though the person is not entitled under section 76 to be enrolled at a government school, if —\n\n(a) there is available for the person at the school —\n\n(i) an appropriate educational programme; and\n\n(ii) classroom accommodation;\n\nand\n\n(b) each person who is entitled under Part 3 Division 4 of the Act to be enrolled at the government school has been given priority for enrolment at the school; and\n\n(c) the school’s principal has the approval of the chief executive officer to enrol overseas students at the school.\n\n[Regulation 20 amended: Gazette 11 Nov 2014 p. 4257.]\n\n### Division 3 — Attendance\n\n##### 21. Period prescribed for retention of attendance records (Act s. 28(1)(b))\n\n(1) The particulars recorded under section 28(1)(a) in relation to a particular student are to be retained for 7 years from the day on which the student’s enrolment ceases.\n\n(2) Nothing in subregulation (1) or regulation 22 is intended to affect the application of the *Library Board of Western Australia Act 1951* in respect of the particulars recorded under section 28(1)(a) in relation to students at government schools.\n\n##### 22. Closed school, CEO’s duties as to attendance records of\n\n(1) If a government school closes before the period referred to in regulation 21(1) expires, the chief executive officer is to ensure that the particulars are retained for the period.\n\n(2) If a non‑government school closes before the period referred to in regulation 21(1) expires, the Part 4 CEO is to ensure that the particulars are retained for the period.\n\n##### 23. Identification badge for school attendance officer, form of prescribed (Act s. 34(4))\n\nThe identification badge of a school attendance officer is to contain —\n\n(a) the name of the school attendance officer; and\n\n(b) a photograph of the school attendance officer; and\n\n(c) a statement that the person has been designated under section 33 as a school attendance officer; and\n\n(d) the expiry date or currency of the designation.\n\n## Part 3 — Management of government schools\n\n### Division 1 — Hours of instruction\n\n##### 24. Minimum hours prescribed for instruction of child in kindergarten programme (Act s. 123(2)(b))\n\nSubject to regulation 27, a child enrolled at a government school in a kindergarten programme is to be provided at least 11 hours instruction during each week in which the school is open for instruction.\n\n##### 25. Minimum hours prescribed for instruction of child in pre‑primary programme (Act s. 123(2)(b))\n\n(1) Subject to regulation 27, before 1 January 2002 a child enrolled at a government school in a pre‑primary programme is to be provided at least 20 hours and 40 minutes instruction during each week in which the school is open for instruction.\n\n(2) Subject to regulation 27, on and from 1 January 2002 a child enrolled at a government school in a pre‑primary programme is to be provided —\n\n(a) at least 25 hours and 50 minutes instruction during each week in which the school is open for instruction; and\n\n(b) at least 4 hours and 10 minutes instruction during each day in which the school is open for instruction.\n\n##### 26. Minimum hours prescribed for instruction of child in primary or secondary programme (Act s. 123(2)(b))\n\nSubject to regulation 27, a child enrolled at a government school in a primary programme or secondary programme is to be provided —\n\n(a) at least 25 hours and 50 minutes instruction during each week in which the school is open for instruction; and\n\n(b) at least 4 hours and 10 minutes instruction during each day in which the school is open for instruction.\n\n##### 27. Periods prescribed under r. 24, 25 and 26, calculation of\n\n(1) A period referred to in regulation 24, 25 or 26 does not include time for recess or lunch.\n\n(2) A period referred to in regulation 24 or 25(1) is reduced by 25% for each public holiday on which a government school is closed during a week in which the school would otherwise be open for instruction.\n\n(3) A period referred to in regulation 25(2)(a) or 26(a) is reduced by 20% for each public holiday on which a government school is closed during a week in which the school would otherwise be open for instruction.\n\n(4) The chief executive officer may reduce a period referred to in regulation 24, 25 or 26 if the reduction in the period would benefit —\n\n(a) children enrolled in a kindergarten programme, a pre‑primary programme, a primary programme or a secondary programme, as is relevant to the case, at a government school; or\n\n(b) the management of a government school.\n\n### Division 2 — Health, safety and cleanliness\n\n##### 28. Student with medical condition, principal’s powers in case of\n\nIf a student at a government school has a medical condition that needs attention when the enrollee is attending school or is otherwise participating in an educational programme of the school the principal may seek such advice from the Chief Health Officer or a registered medical practitioner as will assist —\n\n(a) the principal in deciding whether any member of the staff of the school is to give attention to the student’s medical condition; or\n\n(b) a member of the staff of the school when giving attention to the student’s medical condition.\n\n[Regulation 28 amended: Gazette 10 Jan 2017 p. 229.]\n\n##### 29. Head lice inspection, principal may authorise etc.\n\n(1) The principal of a government school may authorise a member of the teaching staff or another officer at the school to examine the head of any student at the school for the purpose of ascertaining whether head lice are present.\n\nNote for this subregulation:\n\nSection 27(1) applies in the case where a student is found to be suffering from a contagious medical condition.\n\n(2) If a student refuses to be examined under subregulation (1) the principal may direct the student —\n\n(a) not to attend the school until such time as the student is examined under subregulation (1) or by a registered medical practitioner and found not to have head lice; or\n\n(b) not to participate in an educational programme of the school until such time as the student is examined under subregulation (1) or by a registered medical practitioner and found not to have head lice.\n\nNote for this subregulation:\n\nUnder the *Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911* section 337(1) a child attending a school is required to submit to a medical or physical examination by a medical practitioner or any nurse authorised by the Chief Health Officer, and the parents or guardians of the child are required to permit such examination as the medical practitioner or nurse deems necessary.\n\n##### 30. Student with clothing etc. likely to be hazard in school activity, principal’s powers in case of\n\n(1) The principal of a government school may prevent a student from participating in a school activity if the student’s participation in the activity would constitute, or would be likely to constitute, a hazard to the student, or to other students or members of staff at the school, as a result of —\n\n(a) the clothing worn by the student including headwear or footwear; or\n\n(b) the length of the student’s hair, or the student’s hair style; or\n\n(c) the jewellery or other adornment worn by the student including any ring, stud or other thing attached to the student’s body.\n\n(2) A principal may take action under subregulation (1) whether or not the student is complying with the school’s dress code.\n\n##### 31. Student’s hygiene likely to affect others, principal’s powers in case of\n\nIf the state of hygiene of a student at a government school is likely to adversely affect the capacity of other students or members of the teaching staff at the school to participate in a school activity, the principal of the school may require the student to cleanse himself or herself or to return home for that purpose.\n\n##### 32. Parent etc. to be advised of action taken under r. 29(2), 30 or 31\n\nIf a principal takes action under regulation 29(2), 30 or 31 the principal is to take reasonable steps to advise a parent of the student or a person responsible for the student (unless the student is an adult student or an independent minor) of the action and the reasons for the action and seek that person’s assistance in dealing with the situation if necessary.\n\n### Division 3 — School dress codes and codes of conduct\n\n#### Subdivision 1 — School dress codes\n\n##### 33. Matters which may be provided for in dress code (Act s. 140(d)(i))\n\nThe following matters may be provided for in a government school’s dress code —\n\n(a) standards of what is acceptable in relation to the clothing worn by students at the school including headwear or footwear;\n\n(b) standards of what is acceptable in relation to other aspects of the personal presentation of students.\n\n##### 34. Students etc. to be informed of dress code\n\nThe principal of a government school is to ensure that each student enrolled at the school and, unless the student is an adult student or an independent minor, a parent of the student or a person responsible for the student are informed in writing —\n\n(a) at the time of the student’s enrolment at the school about the requirements of the school’s dress code (if any); and\n\n(b) about any changes to the school’s dress code.\n\n##### 35. Exempting student from dress code, grounds for etc. (Act s. 140(d)(iii))\n\n(1) The following persons may apply to the principal of a government school to be exempted from complying with one or more of the requirements of the school’s dress code —\n\n(a) if the student is an adult student or an independent minor, the student;\n\n(b) otherwise, a parent of the student or a person responsible for the student.\n\n(2) On an application under subregulation (1), the principal of a school may exempt, for such period as the principal thinks fit, the student from complying with any requirement of the school’s dress code on any of the following grounds —\n\n(a) the unavailability of a component of the dress code;\n\n(b) a matter relating to the student’s health;\n\n(c) a matter relating to the religious beliefs of the student or the student’s family;\n\n(d) a matter relating to the cultural background of the student or the student’s family;\n\n(e) any other matter which, in the principal’s opinion, is sufficient to exempt the student from complying with the requirement.\n\n(3) The principal may make the exemption subject to conditions.\n\n(4) If the principal of a government school exempts a student at the school from complying with any requirement of the school’s dress code then the principal must —\n\n(a) ensure that a written record is made of —\n\n(i) each requirement of the school dress code that the student is exempt from complying with; and\n\n(ii) the period of time for which each exemption has effect; and\n\n(iii) the ground on which each exemption was given; and\n\n(iv) any relevant condition of the exemption;\n\nand\n\n(b) ensure that the applicant receives a copy of the record; and\n\n(c) ensure that each of the student’s teachers is informed of the contents of the record.\n\n(5) On an application under subregulation (1) the principal may also determine that the exemption applies —\n\n(a) to all students at the school in specified circumstances and if so, is to ensure that the persons affected are informed in writing of the details of the exemption; or\n\n(b) to all students in a specified category of students at the school and if so, is to ensure that the persons affected are informed in writing of the details of the exemption.\n\n(6) The principal —\n\n(a) may revoke or vary an exemption given under this regulation at any time; and\n\n(b) is to ensure that the persons affected are informed in writing of the revocation or variation.\n\n##### 36. Enforcing dress code, powers for\n\n  non‑complying student means a student at a government school —\n\n(a) who does not comply with —\n\n(i) a requirement of the school’s dress code when not exempted under regulation 35 from complying with the requirement; or\n\n(ii) a condition imposed under regulation 35(3) on an exemption that applies to the student;\n\nand\n\n(b) who had reached the age of 6 years and 6 months at the time of the alleged non‑compliance or would have reached that age during the calendar year in which the alleged non‑compliance occurred; and\n\n(c) who had not reached the age of 18 at the time of the alleged non‑compliance.\n\n(2) If a non‑complying student is enrolled in a primary programme the principal of the school may do one or both of the following things —\n\n(a) prevent the student from attending any activity in respect of which the student would have been representing the school;\n\n(b) prevent the student from attending or participating in any school activity which, in the opinion of the principal, is not an essential part of the student’s educational programme.\n\n(3) Despite any provision of Division 5, a student to whom subregulation (2) applies is not to be disciplined in relation to the non‑compliance in any manner other than the manner set out in that subregulation.\n\n(4) If a non‑complying student is enrolled in an educational programme other than a primary programme the provisions of Division 5 Subdivision 1 apply as if the student had committed a breach of school discipline.\n\n(5) Despite subregulation (4), a student may not be prevented from attending or participating in any school activity which, in the opinion of the school’s principal, is an essential part of the student’s educational programme.\n\n(6) Nothing in this regulation enables a student to be treated as having committed a breach of school discipline for the purpose of suspending or excluding the student under Part 3 Division 5 of the Act.\n\n[Regulation 36 inserted: Gazette 17 Nov 2006 p. 4761‑2.]\n\n#### Subdivision 2 — Codes of conduct\n\n##### 37. School’s code of conduct, content of\n\nA school’s code of conduct is not to be inconsistent with any relevant direction under section 135 or 232 or CEO’s Instructions under section 233.\n\n### Division 4 — Supervision of students, protection of persons and property\n\n[Heading inserted: Gazette 24 Aug 2007 p. 4318.]\n\n##### 38. Staff member’s powers to manage etc. students\n\nA member of staff of a government school may, in the performance of the person’s functions, take such action, including physical contact with a student or a student’s property, as is reasonable —\n\n(a) to manage or care for a student; or\n\n(b) to maintain or re‑establish order; or\n\n(c) to prevent or restrain a person from —\n\n(i) placing at risk the safety of any person; or\n\n(ii) damaging any property.\n\n[Regulation 38 inserted: Gazette 24 Aug 2007 p. 4318.]\n\n[**39.** Deleted: Gazette 24 Aug 2007 p. 4318.]\n\n### Division 5 — Discipline\n\n#### Subdivision 1 — Discipline other than suspension\n\n##### 40. School discipline, principal’s general powers as to breaches of\n\n(1) Subject to Part 3 Division 5 of the Act, regulation 36 and this Division, the principal of a government school may determine —\n\n(a) the ways in which students at the school may be disciplined for breaches of school discipline; and\n\n(b) the breaches of school discipline that are to be dealt with by —\n\n(i) the principal; or\n\n(ii) any other member of the teaching staff.\n\n(2) A student at a government school is not to be disciplined by way of corporal punishment.\n\n##### 41. School administrator’s disciplinary powers\n\n(1) If a student at a government school commits a breach of school discipline a school administrator at the school may —\n\n(a) withdraw the student from any class or classes of instruction; or\n\n(b) alter any of the student’s recess or lunch periods; or\n\n(c) restrict or prohibit the student’s participation in a school activity or activities.\n\n(2) A student is not to be withdrawn from any class or classes of instruction for more than 5 consecutive school days.\n\n(3) Action taken under subregulation (2) is not to affect any requirement of the student to attend the school.\n\n##### 42. Detention, rules for imposing etc.\n\n(1) If a student at a government school commits a breach of school discipline a member of the teaching staff at the school may detain the student after school for a period of time approved by the principal of the school.\n\n(2) Before a student is detained the principal of the school or a person authorised by the principal to do so is to take all reasonable steps —\n\n(a) to contact either —\n\n(i) a person who at law has responsibility for the day to day care, welfare and development of the student; or\n\n(ii) a person responsible for the student,\n\nas is relevant to the case; and\n\n(b) to ensure that an arrangement is in place for the student to get home.\n\n(3) A student must not be detained for more than 30 minutes unless —\n\n(a) a person referred to in subregulation (2)(a)(i) or (ii) has been informed of the detention; and\n\n(b) the principal or the person authorised by the principal ensures that —\n\n(i) an arrangement is in place for the student to get home; and\n\n(ii) the arrangement has been agreed to by a person referred to in subregulation (2)(a)(i) or (ii).\n\n#### Subdivision 2 — Suspension\n\n##### 43. Maximum period of suspension prescribed (Act s. 90(1))\n\n(1) The period prescribed for the purposes of section 90(1) —\n\n(a) is 5 consecutive school days unless paragraph (b), (c) or (d) applies; or\n\n(b) is 10 consecutive school days if the student commits a serious breach of school discipline; or\n\n(c) is 10 consecutive school days if the principal makes a recommendation under section 92(1)(a) that the chief executive officer exercise a power under section 94; or\n\n(d) is such further period as is authorised by the chief executive officer if —\n\n(i) the principal has made a recommendation under section 92(1)(a) that the chief executive officer exercise a power under section 94; and\n\n(ii) the chief executive officer has not made a decision based on the material and information referred to in section 92(6); and\n\n(iii) the period of suspension imposed by the principal has expired; and\n\n(iv) the student and, unless the student is an adult student or an independent minor, a parent of the student or a person responsible for the student have been given a reasonable opportunity to show that the suspension should not continue.\n\n(2) If a student is either wholly or partially suspended from attendance at a school for a period of suspension referred to in subregulation (1)(a), (b), or (c), the period terminates at the end of the school term in which the term was imposed.\n\n(3) Nothing in this regulation prevents a student who has been suspended for a period referred to in subregulation (1) from being suspended for a breach of school discipline that occurs after that period if the periods of suspension are not consecutive.\n\n##### 44. Suspension, rules for imposing etc. (Act s. 90(2))\n\n(1) Before a principal suspends a student under section 90(1) for a breach of school discipline other than a serious breach of school discipline, the principal is to —\n\n(a) provide oral or written advice about the duration of, and reasons for, the proposed suspension to —\n\n(i) the student; and\n\n(ii) unless the student is an adult student or an independent minor, a parent of the student or a person responsible for the student;\n\nand\n\n(b) give a person who is given advice under paragraph (a) a reasonable opportunity to give reasons for not suspending the student.\n\n(2) If a principal suspends a student under section 90(1) for a serious breach of school discipline the principal is to —\n\n(a) provide written advice about the duration of, and reasons for, the suspension to —\n\n(i) the student; and\n\n(ii) unless the student is an adult student or an independent minor, a parent of the student or a person responsible for the student;\n\nand\n\n(b) give a person who is given advice under paragraph (a) a reasonable opportunity to show that the student should not have been suspended or that the suspension should not continue.\n\n(3) A student who is suspended under section 90(1) remains subject to the school’s code of conduct during the period of suspension.\n\n[Regulation 44 inserted: Gazette 17 Dec 2002 p. 5908‑9.]\n\n##### 45. Suspension for 10 days or more in school year, principal’s duty in case of\n\n(1) If a student is suspended under section 90(1) for a total of 10 or more days in a school year the principal is to take reasonable steps to arrange a consultation with a parent of the student or a person responsible for the student (unless the student is an adult student or an independent minor) for the purposes of discussing the student’s behaviour and educational programme with the parent or responsible person, with a view to avoiding any further breaches of school discipline by the student.\n\n(2) Nothing in subregulation (1) prevents the principal from arranging consultations referred to in that subregulation for students other than those referred to in that subregulation.\n\n##### 46. Educational instruction for certain suspended students (Act s. 90(3))\n\nIf a student is suspended under section 90(1) —\n\n(a) for 3 or more consecutive school days; or\n\n(b) for a total of 5 or more school days in a school year,\n\nthe principal of the school is to ensure that educational instruction is made available to the student.\n\n##### 46A. Suspension of student charged with or convicted of sexual offence\n\n(1) This regulation applies for the purposes of section 96D.\n\n(2) If the chief executive officer gives a direction in writing to a principal of a school to wholly or partially suspend a student from attendance at the school under section 96D(2), the principal of the school is to wholly or partially (as the case requires) —\n\n(a) suspend the student for 10 consecutive school days; or\n\n(b) suspend the student for such further period as is authorised by the chief executive officer if —\n\n(i) the period of suspension imposed under paragraph (a) has expired; and\n\n(ii) the chief executive officer has not made an order under section 96G(1); and\n\n(iii) the student and, unless the student is an adult student or an independent minor, a parent of the student or a person responsible for the student have been given a reasonable opportunity to show that the suspension should not continue.\n\n(3) If a principal has suspended a student under subregulation (2), the principal is to ensure that educational instruction is made available to the student.\n\n(4) If a student is either wholly or partially suspended from attendance at a school for a period of suspension referred to in subregulation (2), and the period imposed would continue at the end of a school term, the period is taken to —\n\n(a) pause at the end of the school term; and\n\n(b) resume at the start of the next school term.\n\n(5) A student who is suspended under subregulation (2) remains subject to the school’s code of conduct during the period of suspension.\n\nNote for this regulation:\n\nSection 232 provides that the chief executive officer may give directions in writing to the principal of a government school with respect to the performance of the principal’s functions under the Act, either generally or in relation to a particular matter, and the principal is to give effect to any such direction. This may include a direction for a period of suspension imposed under subregulation (2)(a) or (b) to cease.\n\n[Regulation 46A inserted: SL 2024/118 r. 4.]\n\n### Division 6 — Special religious education\n\n##### 47. Provision of special religious education (Act s. 69(1))\n\n(1) The principal of a government school may request the following persons to advise the principal of the religious denomination or group to which a student belongs —\n\n(a) a parent of the student or a person responsible for the student; or\n\n(b) if the student is an adult student or an independent minor, the student.\n\n(2) A person is not obliged to give the principal the advice requested under subregulation (1).\n\n(3) If a government school provides special religious education, the principal of the school is to ensure that appropriate arrangements are in place —\n\n(a) to provide for a student at the school to participate in special religious education; and\n\n(b) to provide for a student at the school who does not participate in special religious education.\n\n##### 48. Who can give special religious education (Act s. 69(3))\n\n(1) The chief executive officer may approve persons as being authorised to give special religious education in schools.\n\n(2) The chief executive officer may —\n\n(a) make an approval under subregulation (1) subject to conditions; and\n\n(b) revoke an approval at any time.\n\n(3) The principal of a government school is to ensure, before a person gives special religious education to students at the school, that the person is authorised under subregulation (1) to give special religious education in the school.\n\n### Division 7 — Advertising and sponsorship\n\n##### 49. Term used: arrangement\n\narrangement means an agreement or arrangement for advertising or sponsorship in connection with an educational programme or school activity at a government school under which the school or any member of staff of, or student at, the school receives money, goods, services or facilities.\n\n##### 50. Arrangements, form and duration of\n\n(1) The Minister may enter into an arrangement that has effect for up to 5 years.\n\n[(2)‑(4) deleted]\n\n(5) An arrangement that has a value of $500 or more must be in writing.\n\n[Regulation 50 amended: Gazette 27 Nov 2012 p. 5737.]\n\n##### 51. Arrangements, limitations on content of\n\nAn arrangement —\n\n(a) must not adversely affect, or be likely to adversely affect the safety, health, welfare or best interests of the students at the school; or\n\n(b) must not require the school or any member of staff of, or student at, the school or the department to endorse, recommend or promote any goods or services; or\n\n(c) must not enable a party to the arrangement other than the Minister, the chief executive officer or the principal, as is relevant to the case —\n\n(i) to invite students to participate in an activity; or\n\n(ii) to make the arrangement conditional upon student participation in an activity;\n\nor\n\n(d) must not provide for any student at the school to participate in an activity unless the student chooses to do so; or\n\n(e) must not restrict competition or require or lead to the exclusive supply by the advertiser or sponsor of goods or services to the school; or\n\n(f) must not promote, or enable the distribution of, goods or services to the school or to any member of staff of, or student at, the school if the consumption of the goods or services is likely to —\n\n(i) conflict with the ethos and values of the school; or\n\n(ii) otherwise adversely affect the school’s reputation;\n\nor\n\n(g) must not enable the distribution, to students at the school, of materials promoting or endorsing any particular denomination or sect or any political party.\n\n##### 52. Naming rights in arrangement\n\n(1) An arrangement must not provide for the right to name —\n\n(a) the school; or\n\n(b) an educational programme of the school.\n\n(2) An arrangement may provide for the right to name —\n\n(a) a facility at the school, including a building or an oval; or\n\n(b) a school activity held at or by the school, including a concert, sporting event, carnival or competition; or\n\n(c) a prize, scholarship or award to be given to a student at, or member of staff of, the school.\n\n##### 53. Teaching materials provided under arrangement\n\nTeaching materials provided under an arrangement are not to be used at the school unless they are clearly identified as being provided under the arrangement.\n\n### Division 8 — Disputes and complaints\n\n##### 54. Term used: scheme\n\nscheme means a scheme provided for under regulation 55.\n\n##### 55. Scheme for dealing with disputes and complaints, establishing\n\n(1) The chief executive officer may make provision, by instrument published in the *Gazette*, for a scheme for dealing with disputes and complaints.\n\n(2) The chief executive officer is to ensure that a scheme —\n\n(a) is consistent with, and requires the application of, the principles of procedural fairness; and\n\n(b) complies, as far as practicable, with the document entitled AS ISO 10002‑2006 *Customer satisfaction — Guidelines for complaints handling in organizations*, published by Standards Australia as amended from time to time; and\n\n(c) does not allow a person referred to in section 235(1) to make a complaint under the scheme unless the complaint relates to the person’s child and the child is a student at a government school; and\n\n(d) does not purport to affect any right that a person has in relation to the making of a complaint under any other law; and\n\n(e) does not purport to prevent the chief executive officer from dealing with a matter that is the subject of a complaint by way of exercising the powers of an employing authority under Part 5 of the *Public Sector Management Act 1994* as that Part has effect under section 239; and\n\n(f) provides for the chief executive officer to prevent a complaint being dealt with under the scheme if dealing with the complaint under the scheme would be likely to delay, interfere with or jeopardise an inquiry, investigation or proceeding under any other law.\n\n[Regulation 55 amended: Gazette 11 Nov 2014 p. 4258.]\n\n##### 56. Protection of complainants etc. from civil liability\n\n(1) A person is not liable to any civil proceedings in respect of —\n\n(a) making a complaint under a scheme; or\n\n(b) providing information in the course of, or for the purposes of —\n\n(i) the investigation of a complaint under a scheme; or\n\n(ii) a proceeding in respect of a complaint under a scheme.\n\n(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply if the complaint was made, or the information was provided, in bad faith.\n\n(3) No civil proceedings are to be brought against a person in respect of an act referred to in subregulation (1)(a) or (b) without the leave of the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court is not to give leave unless it is satisfied that there is substantial ground for the contention that the person to be proceeded against has acted in bad faith.\n\n##### 57. Detrimental action against complainant etc., offence\n\nA person must not —\n\n(a) by threats or intimidation persuade or attempt to persuade another person not to continue with proceedings in relation to a complaint under a scheme; or\n\n(b) refuse to employ, or dismiss, another person or subject another person to any detriment, because the other person —\n\n(i) has made a complaint under a scheme; or\n\n(ii) is taking part, or has taken part, in proceedings in relation to a complaint under a scheme.\n\nPenalty: $2 000.\n\n## Part 4 — Financial provisions for government schools\n\n### Division 1 — Charges and contributions\n\n##### 58. Terms used\n\ncontribution means voluntary contribution;\n\nextra cost optional component has the meaning given by section 97.\n\n##### 59. Materials for which there can be a charge or contribution (Act s. 99)\n\nThe materials for which a charge or contribution may be determined for a government school under section 99 are as follows —\n\n(a) materials in printed or electronic form that are relevant to an educational programme of the school and that are provided by the school to a student for the student to borrow or keep;\n\n(b) stationery items and blank computer disks and audio visual tapes or discs that are provided by the school to a student for the student to borrow or keep;\n\n(c) materials for use in a component of an educational programme of the school that are provided by the school for a student to consume the materials or take ownership of a finished article produced by the student with the materials;\n\n(d) materials for inclusion in the school’s library for use by students.\n\n##### 60. Services and facilities for which there can be a charge or contribution (Act s. 99)\n\nThe services and facilities for which a charge or contribution may be determined for a government school under section 99 are as follows —\n\n(a) printing or copying text materials for use in, or in association with, an educational programme of the school;\n\n(b) transport services to and from educational activities conducted away from the school’s premises;\n\n(c) entry to premises other than the school’s premises to undertake an activity that is part of an educational programme of the school;\n\n(d) attending or participating in an activity (whether held at the school’s premises or elsewhere) —\n\n(i) that is part of an educational programme of the school; and\n\n(ii) that is not provided by the school or staff at the school;\n\n(e) providing equipment other than that which is under the direct control of the school in order to conduct an activity that is part of an educational programme of the school;\n\n(f) providing a venue outside the school’s premises in order to conduct an activity that is part of an educational programme of the school;\n\n(g) in the case of a School of Isolated and Distance Education, posting or telecommunicating educational materials to a student who is studying outside Western Australia.\n\n##### 61. Limits on charges and contributions (Act s. 99(3)(b))\n\n(1) The maximum total amount of a contribution in respect of a student for materials referred to in regulation 59 and services referred to in regulation 60(a) to (f) is $60.00 for each year in which the student —\n\n(a) is in his or her pre‑compulsory education period; or\n\n(b) is in his or her compulsory education period before the student’s first charges payment year.\n\n(2) The maximum total amount of a charge in respect of a student for materials referred to in regulation 59 and services referred to in regulation 60(a) to (f) is $235.00 for —\n\n(a) the student’s first charges payment year; and\n\n(b) each subsequent year until the end of the year in which the student reaches 15 years of age.\n\n(3) The maximum total amount of a contribution or charge, as is relevant to the case, in respect of a student in a region set out in column 1 of the Table to this regulation for the facilities referred to in regulation 60(g) is, for each year in which the student is in the region, the amount set out opposite the region in column 2 of the Table.\n\nTable\n\n| **Region** | **Maximum charge** |\n| --- | --- |\n| Within Australia but outside Western Australia | $130 |\n| New Zealand | $200 |\n| Pacific region other than New Zealand | $260 |\n| South‑East Asian region | $300 |\n| Middle East and North America | $400 |\n| Europe and Russia, Africa, Central and South America | $500 |\n\n(4) The contribution or charge referred to in subregulation (3) is in addition to any other charge or contribution determined under section 99 in respect of the student.\n\n(5) A contribution is not to be determined in respect of a student if a charge has been determined under section 99 in respect of the student.\n\n[Regulation 61 amended: Gazette 2 Dec 2005 p. 5810.]\n\n### Division 2 — Overseas and adult students\n\n##### 62. Criterion prescribed (Act s. 97 *overseas student*)\n\nThe criterion for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of ***overseas student*** in section 97 is that the person —\n\n(a) is a Schedule 3A visa holder; or\n\n(b) is not entitled under section 76 to be enrolled at a government school.\n\n[Regulation 62 amended: Gazette 17 Dec 2002 p. 5909; 11 Nov 2014 p. 4258.]\n\n##### 63. Fees for instruction prescribed (Act s. 103)\n\n(1) The maximum total amount of the fees for instruction that are payable by a person who is an overseas student or an adult student at a government school is $25 000 each school year.\n\n(2) The chief executive officer may from time to time determine the fees for instruction that are payable by overseas students and adult students at a government school not exceeding the limit referred to in subregulation (1).\n\n(3) A fee for instruction may be determined by reference to such matters as the chief executive officer thinks fit, including all, or any, of the following —\n\n(a) a particular period of instruction;\n\n(b) a particular subject of instruction;\n\n(c) a particular level of educational programme;\n\n(d) a particular class or group of students.\n\n(4) Without limiting the general discretion of the chief executive officer under subregulation (3)(d), a class or group of students may be described by reference to all, or any, of the following —\n\n(a) the size of students’ families;\n\n(b) the income and circumstances of students’ families;\n\n(c) the kind, or kinds, of visas —\n\n(i) held by students; or\n\n(ii) held by persons in respect of whom students are dependent children.\n\n[Regulation 63 amended: Gazette 21 Dec 2010 p. 6754; 4 Dec 2012 p. 5909; 11 Nov 2014 p. 4258.]\n\n##### 64. Exemption from r. 63 fees for some adult students\n\n(1) Despite regulation 63, no fee for instruction is payable by an adult student who is enrolled for the year 2013 or any earlier year if the student —\n\n(a) is enrolled in an educational programme that is based on the learning outcomes set out in the outline of curriculum and assessment; and\n\n(b) the student does not reach the age of 19 years by 1 January of the year for which the student is enrolled.\n\n(2) Despite regulation 63, no fee for instruction is payable by an adult student who is enrolled for the year 2014 or any subsequent year if the student —\n\n(a) is enrolled in an educational programme that is based on the learning outcomes set out in the outline of curriculum and assessment; and\n\n(b) the student does not reach the age of 19 years and 6 months by 1 January of the year for which the student is enrolled.\n\n[Regulation 64 amended: Gazette 14 Aug 2012 p. 3831.]\n\n##### 65. CEO may waive r. 63 fees for some overseas students\n\n(1) The chief executive officer may waive the whole or part of any fee for instruction that would otherwise be payable by an overseas student at a government school who is a dependent child of a person —\n\n(a) who is enrolled in a postgraduate course at a university in Western Australia; and\n\n(b) who does not hold a scholarship of a kind set out in Schedule 1.\n\n(2) The chief executive officer may waive the whole or part of any fee for instruction that would otherwise be payable by an overseas student at a government school if —\n\n(a) the student is a Schedule 3A visa holder; and\n\n(b) in the opinion of the chief executive officer, there are special reasons to do so.\n\n(3) In subregulation (2) —\n\nspecial reasons includes that payment of the fee would cause financial hardship.\n\n[Regulation 65 amended: Gazette 11 Nov 2014 p. 4259.]\n\n##### 66. CEO may waive r. 63 fees for some adult students\n\nThe chief executive officer may waive the whole or part of any fee for instruction that would otherwise be payable by an adult student if it is reasonable to do so having regard to the student’s —\n\n(a) educational history; and\n\n(b) individual circumstances; and\n\n(c) record of past behaviour as a student and attitude to school.\n\nExample:\n\nSee the examples at regulation 19(3).\n\n## Part 5 — Management and control of government school premises\n\n##### 67. Application of this Part\n\n(1) This Part applies to school premises —\n\n(a) comprising alienated land the freehold of which is held by the Minister; or\n\n(b) comprising unalienated land —\n\n(i) that is vested in, dedicated to a purpose of, in the possession of, or under the control of, the Minister; or\n\n(ii) that is a managed reserve as defined in the *Land Administration Act 1997* if the Minister is the management body as defined in that Act for the reserve;\n\nor\n\n(c) comprising land that is taken on lease by the Minister.\n\n(2) If school premises comprise land that is taken on lease by the Minister the lease may provide that —\n\n(a) a provision of this Part does not apply to the owner of the land or an agent of the owner and if the lease so provides the provision does not apply to the owner or the owner’s agent; or\n\n(b) a direction or order made under this Part does not apply to the owner of the land or an agent of the owner and if the lease so provides the direction or order does not apply to the owner or the owner’s agent.\n\n(3) This Part does not apply to school premises comprising land that is leased by the Minister to another person.\n\n[Regulation 67 amended: Gazette 13 Nov 2009 p. 4535.]\n\n### Division 2 — Giving name and address\n\n##### 68. Non-student on school premises, power to obtain name and address of\n\n(1) An authorised person may require a person on school premises who is not a student at the school to state the person’s name and address.\n\n(2) A person —\n\n(a) must comply with a requirement under subregulation (1); and\n\n(b) must not give any information that is false or misleading in a material particular in purported compliance with a requirement.\n\n(3) In this regulation —\n\n(a) a school administrator at the school; or\n\n(b) the registrar of the school when the school administrators are absent from duty or are otherwise unable to exercise the power referred to in subregulation (1).\n\n### Division 3 — Maintaining good order on school premises\n\n##### 69. Maintaining good order etc., principal’s general powers for\n\n(1) The principal of a government school may give a direction (a direction), either generally or in a specific case concerning the procedures to be observed by persons on the school’s premises.\n\n(2) A direction may be given for one or more of the following purposes —\n\n(a) to manage and control the school and persons on the school’s premises;\n\n(b) to maintain good order on the school’s premises;\n\n(c) to ensure the safety and welfare of persons on the school’s premises;\n\n(d) to prevent or minimise damage to property that comprises, or is located at, the school’s premises (whether or not the property is vested in the Minister).\n\n(3) A direction that applies to persons generally is of no effect unless it is in writing and posted for public display at the school’s premises for the duration of the period in which the direction is to apply.\n\n(4) A direction that applies to a specific person is of no effect unless it has been given to that person, either orally or in writing.\n\n(5) A direction is of no effect to the extent of any inconsistency with a licence or permission given under regulation 72(1).\n\n(6) A person must comply with a direction.\n\n### Division 4 — Things on school premises\n\n##### 70. Principal’s powers to prohibit and regulate things\n\n(1) The principal of a government school may by order (an order), either generally or in a specific case —\n\n(a) prohibit an item or animal that is specified in the order from being brought on to the school’s premises without the permission of the principal; or\n\n(b) prohibit an item that is specified in the order from being used or consumed on the school’s premises without the permission of the principal; or\n\n(c) place conditions on —\n\n(i) the use or consumption on the school’s premises of an item that is specified in the order; or\n\n(ii) the presence of an animal on the school’s premises that is specified in the order.\n\n(2) An order may be made for one or more of the following purposes —\n\n(a) to manage and control the school and persons on the school’s premises;\n\n(b) to maintain good order on the school’s premises;\n\n(c) to ensure the safety and welfare of persons on the school’s premises;\n\n(d) to prevent or minimise damage to property that comprises, or is located at, the school’s premises (whether or not the property is vested in the Minister).\n\n(3) An order that applies to persons generally is of no effect unless it is in writing and posted for public display at the school’s premises for the duration of the period in which the order is to apply.\n\n(4) An order that applies to a specific person is of no effect unless it has been given to that person, either orally or in writing.\n\n(5) If an order applies to all students at the school it is sufficient compliance with subregulations (3) and (4) if notice of the terms of the order is given by any of the following methods —\n\n(a) announcement to classes;\n\n(b) announcement at an assembly;\n\n(c) in a written circular or other school publication.\n\n(6) An order is of no effect to the extent of any inconsistency with a licence or permission given under regulation 72(1).\n\n(7) A person must comply with an order.\n\n##### 71. Confiscating property from students, powers for\n\n(1) A member of the teaching staff at a government school may take from a student at the school any property that appears to be in the student’s possession and that —\n\n(a) has been brought on to the school’s premises, or used at the school’s premises in a manner that is, contrary to an order under regulation 70(1); or\n\n(b) is likely —\n\n(i) to disrupt good order on the school’s premises; or\n\n(ii) to adversely affect the safety or welfare of persons on the school’s premises; or\n\n(iii) to cause damage to property that comprises, or is located at, the school’s premises (whether or not the property is vested in the Minister).\n\n(2) If a person other than the principal of the school takes property from a student under subregulation (1) the person is to deliver the property to the principal.\n\n(3) The principal of the school is to make arrangements with a parent of the student or a person responsible for the student (unless the student is an adult student or an independent minor) for that parent or person to collect property taken from a student under subregulation (1) unless the property has been delivered into the custody of a member of the Police Force.\n\n(4) The principal is to allow the student to collect property taken from a student under subregulation (1) within such period as the principal thinks is appropriate but the property must be available for collection no later than the end of the school year in which the property was taken from the student.\n\n(5) Subregulation (4) does not apply if the property —\n\n(a) has been delivered into the custody of a member of the Police Force; or\n\n(b) has been collected under an arrangement referred to in subregulation (3).\n\n### Division 5 — Permission to use school premises\n\n##### 72. Permitting public to use school premises\n\n(1) The principal of a government school may give permission for the school’s premises or a part of the school’s premises to be used for an activity or gathering of members of the public for purposes not directly related to the purposes of school education.\n\n(2) Permission under subregulation (1) is to be in writing in a form approved by the chief executive officer.\n\n(3) The principal may give permission under subregulation (1) —\n\n(a) in relation to such part or parts of the school’s premises as are specified in the permission; or\n\n(b) in relation to such periods of time as are specified in the permission; or\n\n(c) subject to such conditions as are specified in the permission.\n\n(4) The principal may give permission under subregulation (1) if the proposed use would not, or would not be likely to —\n\n(a) interfere with the normal operations of the school; or\n\n(b) adversely affect the safety or welfare of persons on the school’s premises; or\n\n(c) cause damage to property that comprises, or is located at, the school’s premises (whether or not the property is vested in the Minister); or\n\n(d) conflict with the ethos and values of the school or otherwise adversely affect the school’s reputation.\n\n(5) No fee or charge is to be paid for the use of the school’s premises except in accordance with a licence.\n\n### Division 6 — Orders to leave school premises\n\n##### 73. Term used: authorised person\n\n(a) a school administrator at the school; or\n\n(b) the registrar of the school when the school administrators are absent from duty or are otherwise unable to exercise a power referred to in regulation 75 or 77; or\n\n(c) a person who is employed or engaged to provide security services for the school’s premises.\n\n##### 74. Principal’s authority prevails\n\nThe authority of the principal of a government school prevails to the extent of any inconsistency in the manner in which the principal and another authorised person deal with a matter for the purposes of this Division.\n\n##### 75. Ordering non-student or student to leave school premises\n\n(1) An authorised person at a government school may, at any time and in the circumstances set out in regulation 76, order a person who is not a student at the school —\n\n(a) who is on the school’s premises to leave the school’s premises and remain away from the school’s premises for up to 24 hours following the time of the order; or\n\n(b) who is on a particular part of the school’s premises to leave that part of the school’s premises and go to a part of the premises where the person has a good reason to be.\n\n(2) An authorised person at a government school may, at a time when the school is not open for instruction and in the circumstances set out in regulation 76, order a student at the school —\n\n(a) who is on the school’s premises to leave the school’s premises and remain away from the school’s premises until the school is open for instruction; or\n\n(b) who is on a particular part of the school’s premises to leave that part of the school’s premises and go to a part of the premises where the student has a good reason to be.\n\n(3) A person must comply with an order directed to him or her under subregulation (1) or (2).\n\nPenalty: $1 000.\n\n##### 76. Circumstances allowing r. 75 order\n\nAn order may be made under regulation 75(1) or (2) in relation to a person if —\n\n(a) the authorised person reasonably suspects that the person has committed or is about to commit an offence under any written law at the school’s premises; or\n\n(b) the authorised person reasonably suspects that the person has used or is about to use —\n\n(i) threatening, abusive or insulting language; or\n\n(ii) threatening or violent behaviour,\n\ntowards any person on the school’s premises; or\n\n(c) the authorised person reasonably suspects that the person has otherwise disrupted or is about to disrupt good order on the school’s premises; or\n\n(d) the authorised person reasonably suspects that the person is in possession of any property —\n\n(i) that has been brought on to the school’s premises, or used at the school’s premises in a manner that is, contrary to an order under regulation 70(1); or\n\n(ii) that is likely —\n\n(I) to disrupt good order on the school’s premises; or\n\n(II) to adversely affect the safety or welfare of persons on the school’s premises; or\n\n(III) to cause damage to property that comprises, or is located at, the school’s premises (whether or not the property is vested in the Minister);\n\nor\n\n(e) the person does not have a good reason to be on the school’s premises or that part of the school’s premises at the particular time.\n\n##### 77. Ordering person to remove animal from school premises\n\n(1) An authorised person at a government school may order a person who appears to have the charge of, or be responsible for, an animal that is on the school’s premises to remove the animal from the premises.\n\n(2) A person must comply with an order under subregulation (1).\n\n### Division 7 — Prohibiting persons from entering school premises\n\n##### 78. Prohibition order, principal may make\n\n(1) The principal of a government school may make an order prohibiting a person from entering the school’s premises without the permission of the principal during such period, not exceeding 60 days from the date of service of the order, as is specified in the order.\n\n(2) The principal is not to make a prohibition order in respect of a person unless the principal is satisfied that —\n\n(a) unless the order is made, the person would be likely to —\n\n(i) cause physical harm to, or apprehension or fear in, another person when that other person is on the school’s premises; or\n\n(ii) cause damage to property that comprises, or is located at, the school’s premises (whether or not the property is vested in the Minister);\n\nand\n\n(b) making a prohibition order is an appropriate way of dealing with the matter in the circumstances of the case.\n\n(3) A prohibition order may be made subject to conditions, varied or revoked but a variation is not to extend the operation of the prohibition order beyond 60 days from the date of service of the original prohibition order.\n\n(4) A prohibition order or an order varying or revoking a prohibition order is not effective until it is personally served.\n\n##### 79. Certain persons not to be prohibited by order from school premises\n\nA person is not to be prohibited under a prohibition order from entering school premises if the person is or becomes —\n\n(a) a student at the school; or\n\n(b) either —\n\n(i) a member of the teaching staff at the school or any other government school; or\n\n(ii) another officer at the school or any other government school; or\n\n(iii) a member of the wages staff at the school or any other government school; or\n\n(iv) a contractor or a member of a contractor’s staff working at the school;\n\nor\n\n(c) any other person who gives instruction at the school; or\n\n(d) any other person employed in the department; or\n\n(e) a member of a management committee provided for under section 219(3)(a) in a licence whose presence, at that time, on the school’s premises or that part of the school’s premises is in accordance with the licence; or\n\n(f) a member of staff whose appointment is provided for under section 219(3)(c) in a licence whose presence, at that time, on the school’s premises or that part of the school’s premises is in accordance with the licence.\n\n##### 80. Breach of prohibition order, offence\n\nA person who has been served with a prohibition order or an order varying a prohibition order must comply with the order.\n\nPenalty: $2 000.\n\n##### 81. *Restraining Orders Act 1997* not affected\n\nNothing in this Division affects the power of a court to make a restraining order under the *Restraining Orders Act 1997* in respect of a matter leading to the making of a prohibition order.\n\n### Division 8 — Closure of school premises\n\n##### 82. Temporary closure of school premises, principal or security coordinator may order\n\n(1) The principal of a government school or the security coordinator may order the temporary closure of the whole or a particular part of the school’s premises —\n\n(a) to protect the health or safety of persons in the vicinity of the school’s premises or the part of the premises to be closed; or\n\n(b) to protect or secure the school premises or the part of the premises to be closed from damage or despoliation or further damage or despoliation.\n\n(2) The order may be for such period as is necessary for the purposes set out in subregulation (1) but is of no effect if it purports to permanently close the school premises or part of the school premises.\n\n(3) Subject to subregulations (1) and (2), an order may be made subject to conditions, varied or revoked.\n\n##### 83. Steps to be taken if r. 82(1) order made\n\n(1) If an order is made under regulation 82(1) to temporarily close the whole of the school premises the person who made the order —\n\n(a) is to notify the chief executive officer immediately after the order is made; and\n\n(b) is to ensure that there are prominently displayed in and around the school premises —\n\n(i) copies of the order and any variation; and\n\n(ii) signs indicating that entry to the school premises is prohibited except with the permission of the person who made the order.\n\n(2) If an order is made under regulation 82(1) to temporarily close a part of the school premises the person who made the order is to ensure that —\n\n(a) that part is cordoned off or otherwise marked; and\n\n(b) there are prominently displayed in and around that part —\n\n(i) copies of the order and any variation; and\n\n(ii) signs indicating that entry to that part is prohibited except with the permission of the person who made the order.\n\n##### 84. Offences as to r. 82(1) order\n\n(1) A person who is on school premises that have been closed by an order under regulation 82(1) must leave the premises as soon as practicable after the order is made unless —\n\n(a) the person is specifically permitted by the person who made the order to remain on the school premises; or\n\n(b) the person’s remaining on the school premises is necessary to prevent or minimise injury to a person or damage to property.\n\n(2) A person who is in a particular part of school premises that has been closed by an order under regulation 82(1) must leave that part of the premises as soon as practicable after the order is made unless —\n\n(a) the person is specifically permitted by the person who made the order to remain in that part of the premises; or\n\n(b) the person’s remaining in that part of the premises is necessary to prevent or minimise injury to a person or damage to property.\n\n(3) A person must not enter school premises that have been closed by an order under regulation 82(1) unless —\n\n(a) the person is specifically permitted by the person who made the order to enter the school premises; or\n\n(b) the person’s entering the school premises is necessary to prevent or minimise injury to a person or damage to property.\n\n(4) A person must not enter a particular part of school premises that has been closed by an order under regulation 82(1) unless —\n\n(a) the person is specifically permitted by the person who made the order to enter that part of the premises; or\n\n(b) the person’s entering that part of the premises is necessary to prevent or minimise injury to a person or damage to property.\n\nPenalty applicable to subregulations (1), (2), (3) and (4): $1 000.\n\n##### 85. Minister may override r. 82(1) order\n\nThe Minister may vary or revoke an order made under regulation 82(1) that is inconsistent with the temporary closure of a school under section 56(1)(b) as if the Minister had the powers of the principal under regulation 82.\n\n### Division 9 — Traffic control on school premises\n\n##### 86. Terms used\n\n(a) the principal of the school; or\n\n(b) the vice or deputy principal of the school or a head of school at the school; or\n\n(c) the registrar of the school when the persons referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) are absent from duty or are otherwise unable to exercise the power referred to in regulation 88; or\n\n(d) the security coordinator; or\n\n(e) a person who is employed or engaged to provide security services for the school’s premises;\n\nspecified means specified in a sign, notice or marking referred to in regulation 87(1).\n\n##### 87. Signs etc. for traffic control, principal may erect etc.\n\n(1) The principal of a government school may, for one or more of the purposes set out in subregulation (2) —\n\n(a) cause to be erected on the school’s premises any sign or notice; or\n\n(b) cause markings to be made at the school’s premises by way of marking out roads or parking spaces.\n\n(2) The purposes for which a principal may take action under subregulation (1) are as follows —\n\n(a) to control the parking or standing of vehicles, specified kinds of vehicles or specified vehicles at the school’s premises;\n\n(b) to prohibit or restrict the way vehicles, specified kinds of vehicles or specified vehicles are used at the school’s premises or a specified part of the school’s premises;\n\n(c) to require vehicles, specified kinds of vehicles or specified vehicles to be used at the school’s premises or a specified part of the school’s premises in a specified manner;\n\n(d) to regulate traffic on the school’s premises including providing for the speed of, manner of driving of, or the routes, entrances and exits to be used for, vehicles, specified kinds of vehicles or specified vehicles.\n\n##### 88. Authorised person may direct drivers etc.\n\n(1) An authorised person at a government school may direct a person who appears to have the charge of, or be responsible for, a vehicle —\n\n(a) to move the vehicle to a place on the school’s premises where its parking, standing or use, as is relevant to the case, is in compliance with a sign, notice or marking referred to in regulation 87(1); or\n\n(b) to move the vehicle to any other place on the school’s premises specified by the authorised person; or\n\n(c) to remove the vehicle from the school’s premises.\n\n(2) The authority of the principal of a government school prevails to the extent of any inconsistency in the manner in which the principal and another authorised person deal with a matter for the purposes of this Division.\n\n##### 89. Traffic offences\n\n(1) A person must comply with a sign, notice or marking referred to in regulation 87(1).\n\nPenalty: $200.\n\n(2) A person must comply with a direction under regulation 88.\n\nPenalty: $1 000.\n\n##### 90. Local laws as to parking not affected\n\nNothing in this Division —\n\n(a) affects the application to school premises of any local law providing for parking offences at premises in the local government district in which the school’s premises are situated; or\n\n(b) prevents a person from being authorised to issue infringement notices in respect of parking offences under a local law committed at the school premises.\n\n### Division 10 — Management of property left on school premises\n\n##### 91. Term used: authorised person\n\nauthorised person, in relation to a school means —\n\n(a) the principal of the school; or\n\n(b) the vice principal or deputy principal of the school or a head of school at the school; or\n\n(c) the registrar of the school; or\n\n(d) the security coordinator.\n\n##### 92. Principal’s authority prevails\n\nThe authority of the principal of a government school prevails to the extent of any inconsistency in the manner in which the principal and another authorised person deal with a matter for the purposes of this Division.\n\n##### 93. Removing and moving vehicles, authorised person’s powers for\n\n(1) An authorised person at a government school may, in the circumstances referred to in subregulation (2), but subject to subregulation (3) —\n\n(a) remove a vehicle from the school’s premises to a place specified by the authorised person; or\n\n(b) move a vehicle within the school’s premises to a place specified by the authorised person.\n\n(2) A vehicle may be removed or moved under subregulation (1) if —\n\n(a) the vehicle is parked in breach of —\n\n(i) a sign, notice or marking referred to in regulation 87(1); or\n\n(ii) a direction under regulation 88;\n\nor\n\n(b) the vehicle appears to have been abandoned.\n\n(3) A vehicle is not to be removed or moved under subregulation (1) unless an authorised person has taken reasonable steps —\n\n(a) to establish the identity of the vehicle’s owner; and\n\n(b) to cause a direction under regulation 88 to be issued to the vehicle’s owner in respect of the vehicle.\n\n##### 94. Authorised person’s powers to remove or move vehicles\n\n(1) An authorised person at a government school, together with such assistants as the authorised person thinks are necessary, may do all such things as may be reasonably necessary to remove a vehicle from, or move a vehicle within, a school’s premises including breaking into, driving or towing the vehicle.\n\n(2) An authorised person or a person assisting an authorised person under subregulation (1) is not liable for any loss of, or damage to, a vehicle which is removed from, or moved within, school premises if the loss or damage occurs without the negligence or wilful misconduct of the authorised person or assistant.\n\n##### 95. Lost, discarded or disused property, principal’s functions as to; ownership of\n\n(1) The principal of a government school may take possession of property on school premises that appears to be lost, discarded or disused.\n\n(2) If the principal does not know who owns the property then before taking steps to dispose of the property under regulation 96 the principal —\n\n(a) is to take reasonable steps to establish the identity of the property’s owner; and\n\n(b) in the case of property that appears to have a value of more than $100, is to bring the matter to the attention of the public by a notice published in a newspaper circulating in the area in which the school is located.\n\n(3) If the principal knows or establishes the identity of the property’s owner the principal is to request the owner —\n\n(a) to take possession of the property; and\n\n(b) if relevant, to remove the property from the school’s premises.\n\n(4) The property becomes the property of the department —\n\n(a) in the case where the principal knows or establishes the identity of the property’s owner, if the property is not claimed within 14 days of the request under subregulation (3); or\n\n(b) in the case where the principal does not know and has not been able to establish the identity of the property’s owner, if the property is not claimed within 14 days of whichever of the following events occurs later —\n\n(i) the final step taken to establish the identity of the property’s owner; or\n\n(ii) the date of publication of the notice (if any) referred to in subregulation (2)(b).\n\n(5) The principal or a person assisting the principal under this regulation is not liable for any loss of, or damage to, any property the possession of which is taken under this regulation if the loss or damage occurs without the negligence or wilful misconduct of the principal or assistant.\n\n##### 96. Unclaimed lost etc. property, disposal of\n\n(1) Property that has become the property of the department under regulation 95(4) may, at the discretion of the principal of the school at which the property was lost, discarded or disused, be —\n\n(a) sold; or\n\n(b) given away; or\n\n(c) destroyed or otherwise disposed of.\n\n(2) Subject to any direction of the chief executive officer under section 232, the principal of the school at which property was lost, discarded or disused is to cause the net proceeds of the sale of the property under subregulation (1)(a) to be paid into the school’s school fund.\n\n##### 97. Costs etc. of removing etc. vehicle or property, recovering\n\n(1) The following may be recovered from the owner of a vehicle or other property as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction —\n\n(a) costs and expenses reasonably incurred in removing the vehicle or other property from school premises in accordance with this Division;\n\n(b) costs and expenses reasonably incurred in moving the vehicle or other property within school premises in accordance with this Division.\n\n(2) An authorised person who removes a vehicle from, or moves a vehicle within, school premises may direct a person who has the charge of the vehicle to refuse to deliver possession of the vehicle to the owner until costs and expenses referred to in subregulation (1) in relation to the vehicle are paid and a person so directed may refuse to deliver possession of the vehicle to the owner until such costs and expenses are paid.\n\n(3) The principal of a government school at which property is lost, discarded or disused may direct a person who has the charge of the property to refuse to deliver possession of the property to the owner until costs and expenses referred to in subregulation (1) in relation to the property are paid and a person so directed may refuse to deliver possession of the property to the owner until such costs and expenses are paid.\n\n(4) Proceedings under subregulation (1) may be taken on behalf of the Minister in the name of the chief executive officer or a person authorised in that behalf by the chief executive officer and in any such proceedings no proof is required of —\n\n(a) the appointment of the chief executive officer; or\n\n(b) the authorisation of a person under this subregulation.\n\n### Division 11 — Review of decisions made under this Part\n\n##### 98. Decision under r. 72(1) to refuse use of school premises, review of\n\n(1) A person who is aggrieved by a decision of the principal not to give permission under regulation 72(1) for the school’s premises to be used for an activity or gathering of members of the public may request the chief executive officer to review the decision.\n\n(2) On a review the chief executive officer may —\n\n(a) confirm the decision; or\n\n(b) give the permission as if the chief executive officer had the powers of the principal under regulation 72.\n\n##### 99. Other decisions under this Part, review of\n\n(1) This regulation applies to —\n\n(a) a direction under regulation 69(1) (maintaining good order on school premises); or\n\n(b) an order under regulation 70(1) (bringing things on to school premises); or\n\n(c) a decision under regulation 71(1) to confiscate property from a student; or\n\n(d) an order under regulation 82(1) (temporary closure of school premises); or\n\n(e) a decision under regulation 87(1) (signs, notices or markings for traffic control).\n\n(2) A person who is aggrieved by a direction, an order or a decision to which this regulation applies may request the chief executive officer to review the direction, order or decision.\n\n(3) On a review the chief executive officer may —\n\n(a) confirm the direction, order or decision; or\n\n(b) vary or revoke the direction, order or decision, with or without making a new direction, order or decision, as if the chief executive officer had the powers of —\n\n(i) the principal under regulation 69; or\n\n(ii) the principal under regulation 70; or\n\n(iii) a member of the teaching staff under regulation 71; or\n\n(iv) the principal under regulation 82; or\n\n(v) the principal under regulation 87,\n\nas is relevant to the case.\n\n##### 100. Prohibition order, review of\n\n(1) A person aggrieved by a prohibition order may request the chief executive officer to review the order.\n\n(2) On a review the chief executive officer may —\n\n(a) confirm the prohibition order; or\n\n(b) vary the prohibition order as if the chief executive officer had the powers of the principal under regulation 78 but a variation is not to extend the operation of the prohibition order beyond 60 days from the date of service of the prohibition order; or\n\n(c) revoke the prohibition order, with or without making a new prohibition order, as if the chief executive officer had the powers of the principal under regulation 78 but a new order is not to have effect beyond 60 days from the date of service of the original prohibition order.\n\n##### 101. Matters applicable to reviews under this Division\n\n(1) On a review under this Division the chief executive officer —\n\n(a) may take into account any information that is relevant to the review; and\n\n(b) is to complete the review within 14 days and is to advise the applicant and the person who made the direction, order or decision being reviewed of the chief executive officer’s decision.\n\n(2) A direction, order or decision that is being reviewed under this Division continues to have effect while the review is being conducted.\n\n### Division 12 — Fees for the use of school premises\n\n##### 102. Fees for residential accommodation on school premises\n\n(1) The chief executive officer may from time to time determine the fees that are payable in respect of providing residential accommodation on school premises.\n\n(2) The maximum total amount of fees that are payable in respect of providing residential accommodation to a person is $10 500 each calendar year.\n\n(3) Fees may be made payable in relation to the use of accommodation facilities on a daily or other periodic basis.\n\n[Regulation 102 amended: Gazette 21 Dec 2010 p. 6754.]\n\n## Part 6 — Government school Councils\n\n##### 103. Term used: school\n\n(1) In this Part —\n\nschool has the meaning given by section 124.\n\n(2) If a Council operates for 2 or more schools jointly a reference in this Part, except in regulation 107(1) to (3), to a school is a reference to each of the schools for which the Council operates.\n\n### Division 2 — Constitution of Councils\n\n##### 104. Interim Council, appointment of etc.\n\n(1) If the Minister —\n\n(a) establishes a school the Minister may  appoint an interim Council for the school; or\n\n(b) gives approval for 2 or more schools to have one Council that operates for those schools jointly the Minister may  appoint an interim Council for the schools.\n\n(2) An interim Council has the functions of a Council, and holds office, until 1 January in the year after the first year in which students are enrolled at the school or the Minister gives the approval referred to in subregulation (1)(b), as is relevant to the case.\n\n(3) Subject to section 127(1), (2), (3), (4) and (6) and subregulation (2), the Minister  may  appoint for an interim Council such number of members, in such composition and for such term as is appropriate.\n\n##### 105. Class of school prescribed (Act s. 127(1)(d)); which students can be on Council\n\n(1) A school with students enrolled in secondary programmes is a school for the purposes of section 127(1)(d).\n\n(2) A student at a school referred to in subregulation (1) may be a member of the Council for the school during a calendar year if the student is 15 years of age or more or will reach 15 years of age during that year.\n\n[Regulation 105 amended: Gazette 11 Nov 2014 p. 4259.]\n\n##### 106. Number of members prescribed (Act s. 127(5)(b))\n\n(1) For the purposes of section 127(5)(b) —\n\n(a) an unincorporated Council is to have at least 5 members and not more than 15 members;\n\n(b) an incorporated Council is to have at least 10 members and not more than 15 members;\n\n(c) if a Council operates for 2 or more schools jointly, the Council is to have such number of members as is determined by the Minister.\n\n(2) Subject to subregulation (1), a Council for a school is to determine the number of members.\n\n##### 107. Composition of Council, how determined (Act s. 127(5)(b))\n\n(1) For the purposes of section 127(5)(b), subject to subregulations (2), (3) and (4), the Council for a school is to determine its composition —\n\n(a) having regard to —\n\n(i) the nature of the student population of the school and the social, cultural, lingual, economic or geographic factors that may be relevant to the school; and\n\n(ii) the functions of the Council and any changes in those functions;\n\nand\n\n(b) with a view to —\n\n(i) including members of the general community; and\n\n(ii) including members of the staff of the school in addition to the principal; and\n\n(iii) including student members to whom regulation 105 applies; and\n\n(iv) allocating a membership position to a member of an association referred to in section 149 in relation to the school or a group of schools to which the school belongs.\n\n(2) The Council for a school is to have at least one member drawn from the persons referred to in section 127(1)(a).\n\n(3) If a school or a group of schools to which the school belongs has a Parents and Citizens’ Association the association is entitled to nominate one of its members to be a member of the Council for the school in the membership category referred to in section 127(1)(a) or (b), as is relevant to the nominee.\n\n(4) If a Council operates for 2 or more schools jointly, the composition of the Council is to be determined by the Minister.\n\n##### 108. Members, appointment and election of (Act s. 127(5)(c))\n\n(1) If a vacancy of any kind exists in the membership of a Council for a school the principal of the school is to invite nominations from suitably qualified persons to fill the vacancy.\n\n(2) If the number of nominations exceeds the number of vacancies —\n\n(a) for the membership category referred to in section 127(1)(a), the principal  is to conduct an election among those persons eligible to vote under regulation 109(1) or (2), as is relevant to the case; or\n\n(b) for the membership category referred to in section 127(1)(b), the Council may appoint suitably qualified persons from the list of nominees; or\n\n(c) for the membership category referred to in section 127(1)(c), the principal  is to conduct an election among those persons eligible to vote under regulation 109(3); or\n\n(d) for a membership category referred to in section 127(1)(d), the principal  is to conduct an election among those persons eligible to vote under regulation 109(4).\n\n(3) The chief executive officer may, from time to time, specify standards or requirements in relation to the conduct of elections under subregulation (2).\n\n(4) The chief executive officer may inquire into any matter affecting an election or appointment under subregulation (2) and if any irregularity has occurred in relation to the election or appointment  the chief executive officer may —\n\n(a) declare the results of an election or appointment to be invalid; or\n\n(b) order an election or appointment  or a new election or appointment  to be conducted.\n\n(5) In subregulations (1) and (2) —\n\nprincipal, in relation to a Council that operates for 2 or more schools jointly, means a principal of one of those schools who has been nominated by the chief executive officer for the purposes of those subregulations.\n\n##### 109. Who can vote in election of members\n\n(1) The persons eligible to vote for a person to be a member of the Council for the school in the category referred to in section 127(1)(a) are, subject to subregulation (2) —\n\n(a) each parent whose name and address has been provided to the school under section 16(1)(b)(ii)(I); or\n\n(b) if neither parent’s name and address has been so provided in relation to a particular student, each person who is responsible for the student.\n\n(2) The persons eligible to vote for a person to be a member of the Council for the school in the category referred to in section 127(1)(a) where the majority of students at the school are 18 years of age or more are each student —\n\n(a) who is enrolled at the school at the date of the notice of the election; and\n\n(b) who is 15 years of age or more or who will reach 15 years of age during the calendar year of that date.\n\n(3) The persons eligible to vote for a person to be a member of the Council for the school in the category referred to in section 127(1)(c) are each person to whom section 235(1) applies and whose usual place of work is at the school.\n\n(4) The persons eligible to vote for a person to be a member of the Council for the school in the category referred to in section 127(1)(d) are each student —\n\n(a) who is enrolled at the school at the date of the notice of the election; and\n\n(b) who is 15 years of age or more or who will reach 15 years of age during the calendar year of that date.\n\n(5) A person may not vote in respect of more than one category referred to in subregulations (1) to (4).\n\n##### 110. Term of office prescribed (Act s. 127(5)(d))\n\n(1) A member of the Council for a school —\n\n(a) subject to subregulation (2), holds office for a term, not exceeding 3 years, as determined by the Council; and\n\n(b) may be reappointed once or more than once.\n\n(2) A member of a Council for a school who is elected or appointed to fill a casual vacancy holds office for the residual period of the predecessor’s term of office.\n\n##### 111. When vacancy occurs\n\n(1) The office of a member of the Council for a school becomes vacant if the member —\n\n(a) becomes ineligible to hold office as a member; or\n\n(b) resigns the office by written notice delivered to the Council; or\n\n(c) is removed from office by the chief executive officer under subregulation (2).\n\n(2) The chief executive officer may remove a person as a member of the Council for a school on the grounds that the continuation of the person as a member would be detrimental to the interests of the Council.\n\n(3) Subject to subregulation (4), the Council for a school may remove a person as a member of the Council on the grounds that the person —\n\n(a) has neglected the person’s duty as a member; or\n\n(b) has misbehaved or is incompetent; or\n\n(c) is suffering from mental or physical incapacity, other than temporary illness, impairing the performance of the person’s functions as a member; or\n\n(d) has been absent, without leave or reasonable excuse, from 3 consecutive meetings of which the member has had notice.\n\n(4) The Council for a school must not remove a person as a member of the Council unless —\n\n(a) the person has been given a reasonable opportunity to show that he or she should not be removed as a member; and\n\n(b) the decision is made by a resolution of a majority comprising enough of the members for the time being of the Council for their number to be at least 2/3 of the number of offices (whether vacant or not) of member of the Council.\n\n##### 112. Co‑opting members\n\nThe Council for a school may appoint a member of the local community having such experience, skills or qualifications as would enable the person to make a contribution to the Council’s functions to be a co‑opted member for such period, or in relation to such matters, as determined by the Council.\n\n### Division 3 — Functions of Councils\n\n##### 113. Functions prescribed that Minister may approve for incorporated Council (Act s. 130(1))\n\nThe functions of a Council for a school prescribed for the purposes of section 130(1) are as follows —\n\n(a) to obtain funds for the benefit of the school;\n\n(b) to employ persons other than a person referred to in section 235(1);\n\n(c) to manage or operate facilities at the school.\n\nExamples:\n\n- a canteen\n- a swimming pool\n- residential accommodation for students\n- a school farm or horticultural centre\n\n##### 114. Council operating for 2 or more schools, performance of functions by\n\nIf a Council operates for 2 or more schools jointly, the Council’s functions are to be performed in a way which takes account of the specific needs of each school for which the Council operates.\n\n### Division 4 — Proceedings of Councils\n\n##### 115. Meetings, when to be held; open to public\n\n(1) Subject to regulations 117 and 118, an ordinary or a special meeting of a Council for a school is to be held if so decided by the Council.\n\n(2) The chairperson of the Council is to convene Council meetings in accordance with the directions of the Council in relation to the venue and time of the meeting and giving notice of the meeting.\n\n(3) A meeting of the Council is generally to be open to members of the public but the Council may decide to close to members of the public a meeting or part of the meeting on the grounds set out in regulation 116 unless the meeting is one referred to in regulation 117 or 118.\n\n##### 116. Grounds for closing meeting to public\n\n(1) A Council for a school may decide to close to members of the public a meeting or part of the meeting if the meeting or part of the meeting deals with any of the following —\n\n(a) a matter affecting a person who is employed at the school;\n\n(b) the personal affairs of any person;\n\n(c) a contract entered into, or which may be entered into, by the Council and which relates to a matter to be discussed at the meeting;\n\n(d) legal advice obtained, or which may be obtained, by the Council and which relates to a matter to be discussed at the meeting;\n\n(e) a matter that if disclosed, would reveal —\n\n(i) information that has a commercial value to a person and that is held by, or is about, a person other than the Council; or\n\n(ii) information about the business, professional, commercial or financial affairs of a person and that is held by, or is about, a person other than the Council;\n\n(f) information which is the subject of a direction given under section 23(1a) of the *Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1971*.\n\n(2) A decision to close a meeting or part of a meeting and the reason for the decision are to be recorded in the minutes of the meeting.\n\n##### 117. Annual public meeting\n\nA Council for a school is to hold each calendar year at least one meeting —\n\n(a) that is open to the public; and\n\n(b) 14 days’ notice of which has been given to parents of students enrolled at the school at the time the meeting is called; and\n\n(c) in which a report is presented on the performance of the Council’s functions since the previous annual public meeting or the Council’s inaugural meeting, as is relevant to the case.\n\n##### 118. Special meeting called for by families of students or by students\n\n(1) Subject to subregulation (2), the chairperson of a Council for a school is to convene a special meeting of the Council if the meeting is called for —\n\n(a) in a notice to the chairperson setting out the purposes of the proposed meeting; and\n\n(b) by —\n\n(i) at least 20 families of students at the school; or\n\n(ii) at least half the number of families of students at the school,\n\nwhichever is the lesser number of families.\n\n(2) The chairperson of a Council for a school at which the majority of the students at a school are 18 years of age or more is to convene a special meeting of the Council if the meeting is called for —\n\n(a) in a notice to the chairperson setting out the purposes of the proposed meeting; and\n\n(b) by at least 20 students at the school.\n\n(3) The chairperson is not to convene a meeting under subregulation (1) or (2) if the purposes of the proposed meeting are not relevant to the Council’s functions.\n\n(4) A meeting convened under subregulation (1) or (2) is to deal only with matters relevant to the purposes set out in the notice received by the chairperson.\n\n##### 119. Voting\n\nabsolute majority, in relation to a Council for a school, means a majority comprising enough of the members for the time being of the Council for their number to be more than 50% of the number of offices (whether vacant or not) of member of the Council.\n\n(2) A decision of a Council for a school does not have effect unless it has been made by an absolute majority.\n\n(3) Each Council member (including the chairperson) is entitled to one vote only.\n\n### Division 5 — Transitional provision as to Councils\n\n##### 120. Certain Councils to comply with Act s. 127 and this Part Div. 2 and 4 by 1 July 2003\n\nCouncil means a Council referred to in clause 20(1) of Schedule 1 to the Act.\n\n(2) A Council is to take such steps as are necessary to ensure that its constitution and procedures comply with section 127 and Divisions 2 and 4 by 1 July 2003.\n\n(3) Before 1 July 2003, a Council may operate under the constitution and procedures applicable to it on the day on which the Act commences until such time as its constitution and procedures comply with section 127 and Divisions 2 and 4.\n\n(4) A Council is not to apply for the Minister’s approval to perform a function under section 130 unless at the time of the application the Council’s constitution and procedures comply with section 127 and Divisions 2 and 4.\n\n## Part 7 — Parents and Citizens’ Associations of government schools\n\n##### 121. Term used: association\n\nIn this Part —\n\nassociation means a Parents and Citizens’ Association formed under section 142.\n\n##### 122. CEO’s approval required for certain activities by association\n\nAn association may, subject to the approval of the chief executive officer, do any of the following things in relation to the school or group of schools for which it is formed —\n\n(a) assist in the provision of a resource, facility or amenity for the school or schools;\n\n(b) organise or conduct fundraising or other benefits for the benefit of the school or schools;\n\n(c) seek voluntary contributions for the provision of a resource, facility or amenity for the school or schools from parents of students at the school or schools.\n\n##### 123. CEO may close or abolish facilities etc. provided by association\n\n(1) The chief executive officer may at any time order the closure or abolition of any resource, facility or amenity provided by an association if the resource, facility or amenity —\n\n(a) has not been properly established; or\n\n(b) is not managed properly; or\n\n(c) is no longer required; or\n\n(d) is not operated in a way which is consistent with the ethos of the government education system.\n\n(2) Effect is to be given to an order under subregulation (1) according to its tenor.\n\n##### 124. Constitution of association to contain certain provisions\n\n(1) The Minister is not to approve —\n\n(a) a proposed constitution of an association for the purposes of section 145(3) or 146(3) unless that constitution provides for the matters set out in subregulation (2); or\n\n(b) a change to or substitution of an association’s constitution for the purposes of section 145(5) or 146(5) unless the constitution provides, or will continue to provide, for the matters set out in subregulation (2).\n\n(2) An association’s constitution is to provide —\n\n(a) that the annual membership subscription is not to exceed $1.00 for each member; and\n\n(b) that the principal of the school for which the association is formed is an ex officio member of the governing body of the association; and\n\n(c) if the association is formed for a group of schools, that the principal of each school for which the association is formed is an ex officio member of the governing body of the association.\n\n## Part 8 — Staff employed in the department\n\n### Division 1 — General\n\n##### 125. Probation period for teaching staff etc. engaged under Act s. 236(2)\n\nA person who is engaged under section 236(2) is to be on probation for not more than the first 12 months after the engagement commences or for such longer time as the chief executive officer determines.\n\n##### 126. Inefficient teachers under repealed r. 86A, transitional provision for\n\nIf, before the commencement of the Act, the chief executive officer had received 2 or more reports that a teacher is inefficient —\n\n(a) the chief executive officer and the Minister may exercise their respective powers under regulation 86A of the *Education Regulations 1960* in relation to the teacher as if that regulation had not been repealed; and\n\n(b) that regulation otherwise applies in relation to the teacher as if it had not been repealed.\n\n### Division 2 — Teaching staff\n\n##### 127. Offices etc. prescribed to be school administrators (Act s. 237(a)(ii))\n\nThe following offices or positions or classes of office or position are prescribed for the purposes of section 237(a)(ii) —\n\n(a) vice principal;\n\n(b) deputy principal;\n\n(c) head of school;\n\n(d) head of department;\n\n(e) programme coordinator;\n\n(f) coordinator;\n\n(g) manager;\n\n(h) senior lecturer;\n\n(i) head of learning area.\n\n##### 127A. Classes of teaching staff prescribed (Act s. 237(c))\n\nThe following classes of teaching staff are prescribed for the purposes of section 237(c) —\n\n(a) director;\n\n(b) area director;\n\n(c) school psychologist;\n\n(d) education officer;\n\n(e) school development officer;\n\n(e) principal consultant.\n\n[Regulation 127A inserted: Gazette 17 Dec 2002 p. 5909.]\n\n## Part 9 — Non‑government schools\n\n##### 128. Kinds of establishments that are not schools (Act s. 154(2)(c))\n\neducational programme means an organised set of learning activities designed to enable a child to develop knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes relevant to the child’s individual needs.\n\n(2) Establishments of the following kinds are prescribed for the purposes of section 154(2)(c) —\n\n(a) an establishment that provides an educational programme to a child that is additional to an educational programme provided to the child to satisfy the duty imposed by section 9;\n\n(b) an establishment that provides an educational programme to a child that is based on the development by the child of a particular skill or proficiency.\n\n(3) The following are irrelevant in determining if an establishment is of a kind to which subregulation (2) applies —\n\n(a) the place, or places, where the establishment provides an educational programme;\n\n(b) whether an educational programme is provided to a child individually or as part of a group or class of children;\n\n(c) that an educational programme provided is the same as, or similar to, an educational programme that would satisfy the duty imposed by section 9 in respect of a child.\n\n[Regulation 128 inserted: Gazette 16 Jan 2015 p. 312‑13.]\n\n##### 129. Significant registration changes (Act s. 156)\n\nnon‑compulsory education means education provided to children —\n\n(a) in the final year of their early education period; or\n\n(b) in their pre‑compulsory education period;\n\nprimary education means education provided to children in any of the 1st to 7th years of their compulsory education period;\n\nsecondary education means education provided to children in any of the 8th to 13th years of their compulsory education period.\n\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of ***school planning proposal*** in section 156, a proposal to make any of the following registration changes to a registered school is a significant registration change —\n\n(a) to relocate the school or a campus of the school;\n\n(b) to open an additional campus of the school;\n\n(c) to provide an additional year level, or more than one additional year levels, of education if the addition or additions would result in the school providing —\n\n(i) non‑compulsory education if the school currently provides no non‑compulsory education; or\n\n(ii) primary education if the school currently provides no primary education; or\n\n(iii) secondary education if the school currently provides no secondary education.\n\n[Regulation 129 inserted: SL 2020/15 r. 4.]\n\n##### 130. Consultation procedures prescribed (Act s. 157C(2)(d))\n\nadvance determination, non‑system school, school planning proposal and school system have the meanings given to those terms in section 150;\n\nadvisory panel means an advisory panel under section 241 established for the purpose of advising the Minister on applications made to the Minister for advance determinations about school planning proposals.\n\n(2) If consultation about a school planning proposal is required under a policy direction issued under section 157C, then the procedures set out in subregulations (3) to (6) are prescribed for the purposes of section 157C(2)(d).\n\n(3) On receipt of an application for an advance determination about a school planning proposal on which consultation is required, the Minister or, if the application is referred to an advisory panel by the Minister, the advisory panel is to consult with, and take into account the views of, the following —\n\n(a) the chief executive officer referred to in section 229;\n\n(b) the governing body of each school system;\n\n(c) the governing body of each non‑system school that, in the opinion of the Minister or advisory panel, could be adversely affected by the implementation of the school planning proposal;\n\n(d) the governing body of each proposed non‑system school —\n\n(i) in respect of which there is an advance determination in force; and\n\n(ii) that, in the opinion of the Minister or advisory panel, could be adversely affected by the implementation of the school planning proposal.\n\n(4) For the purposes of subregulation (3), the Minister or advisory panel must invite —\n\n(a) each person and body referred to in subregulation (3) to submit to the Minister or advisory panel an objection to the school planning proposal; and\n\n(b) the applicant to submit to the Minister or advisory panel a response to any objection submitted under paragraph (a).\n\n(5) A person or body submitting an objection or response must —\n\n(a) submit the objection or response in writing in a form approved by the Minister; and\n\n(b) include in the objection or response the information required by the Minister or advisory panel; and\n\n(c) submit the objection or response within —\n\n(i) 14 days after the day on which the invitation is made; or\n\n(ii) a longer period approved by the Minister or advisory panel.\n\n(6) After receiving an objection or response from a person or body, the Minister or advisory panel may accept additional information or submissions from the person or body, orally or in writing, as the Minister or advisory panel considers appropriate.\n\n[Regulation 130 inserted: SL 2020/15 r. 5.]\n\n##### 130A. Transitional provision for *School Education Amendment Regulations 2020*\n\nadvance determination has the meaning given in section 150;\n\ncommencement day means the day on which the *School Education Amendment Regulations 2020* regulation 5 comes into operation.\n\n(2) These regulations apply in respect of an application for an advance determination received by the Minister before the commencement day as if regulation 130 had not been replaced by the *School Education Amendment Regulations 2020* regulation 5.\n\n[Regulation 130A inserted: SL 2020/15 r. 5.]\n\n##### 131A. Other matters about which standards may be determined (Act s. 159(1)(n))\n\nFor the purposes of section 159(1)(n), the Minister may also determine standards for non‑government schools about any of the following matters —\n\n(a) the management of students’ behaviour;\n\n(b) the minimum age children must reach to be enrolled at schools;\n\n(c) the delivery of the curriculum or curriculums of schools;\n\n(d) the number of children enrolled at schools.\n\n[Regulation 131A inserted: Gazette 22 Dec 2017 p. 5978.]\n\n##### 131. Consultation procedures prescribed (Act s. 159(2))\n\nIn determining standards in respect of a matter referred to in section 159(1) the Minister is to consult with, and take into account the views of —\n\n(a) the Executive Director Catholic Education in Western Australia; and\n\n(b) the Association of Independent Schools of Western Australia (Inc.); and\n\n(c) any other person or body who is able to make a useful contribution in relation to the standards that are to be determined.\n\n[Regulation 131 amended: Gazette 16 Jan 2015 p. 314.]\n\n## Part 10 — Community kindergartens\n\n##### 132. Terms used\n\nIn this Part —\n\ncontribution means voluntary contribution;\n\nkindergarten means community kindergarten.\n\n### Division 2 — Registration of kindergartens\n\n##### 133. Matters prescribed to be considered by Minister when determining registration of kindergarten (Act s. 194(1)(d))\n\n(1) For the purposes of section 194(1)(d), a matter to be taken into account by the Minister in determining an application for registration of a kindergarten (the proposed kindergarten) is the effect that the opening of the proposed kindergarten would have on the capacity of each existing kindergarten or school in the geographic region from which the proposed kindergarten would draw its enrollees to continue to provide the educational programmes provided by them before the opening of the proposed kindergarten.\n\n(2) In subregulation (1) —\n\nexisting school includes a proposed school for which a determination under section 157B is in force.\n\n[Regulation 133 amended: Gazette 16 Jan 2015 p. 314.]\n\n### Division 3 — Management of kindergartens\n\n##### 134. Functions of teaching staff prescribed (Act s. 205(1)(g))\n\nThe functions that are prescribed for the purposes of section 205(1)(g) for the teaching staff in all kindergartens are as follows —\n\n(a) in consultation with the governing body of the kindergarten to establish, or to ensure that there is established, a plan for the management of the kindergarten;\n\n(b) to report to the governing body of the kindergarten on the achievement of the objectives in the plan for the management of the kindergarten.\n\n##### 135. When kindergarten to be open\n\n(1) The chief executive officer, by order published in the *Gazette*, is to determine the days in each year on which kindergartens are to be open for educational instruction of children.\n\n(2) Section 117(2) to (4) apply as if the references in those provisions to an order were references to an order under subregulation (1).\n\n##### 136. Enrolment at kindergarten (Act s. 206(2)(b))\n\n(1) For the purposes of section 206(2)(b), sections 16, 17, 18 and 20 and any regulations made under those sections apply to an application for enrolment at a kindergarten and have effect as if —\n\n(a) the references in those sections and regulations to a school were references to the kindergarten; and\n\n(b) the references in those sections and regulations to a principal were references to the teacher in charge of the kindergarten.\n\n(2) For the purposes of section 206(2)(b), if the number of children applying for enrolment at a particular kindergarten for a particular year exceeds the number of available places at the kindergarten and the kindergarten’s link school is a local‑intake school, priority for enrolment is to be given in the following order —\n\n(a) to a child whose usual place of residence is in the intake area of the link school —\n\n(i) who has a sibling enrolled at the link school for that year; and\n\n(b) to a child whose usual place of residence is in the intake area of the link school —\n\n(i) who does not have a sibling enrolled at the link school for that year; and\n\n(c) to a child whose usual place of residence is not in the intake area of the link school —\n\n(i) who has a sibling enrolled at the link school for that year; and\n\n(d) to a child whose usual place of residence is not in the intake area of the link school —\n\n(i) who does not have a sibling enrolled at the link school for that year; and\n\n(ii) who lives nearest the kindergarten.\n\n(3) For the purposes of section 206(2)(b), if the number of children applying for enrolment at a particular kindergarten for a particular year exceeds the number of available places at the kindergarten and the kindergarten’s link school is not a local‑intake school, priority for enrolment is to be given to the child who lives nearest the kindergarten.\n\n[Regulation 136 amended: Gazette 10 Oct 2003 p. 4402‑3; 19 Jul 2019 p. 2845.]\n\n##### 137. Minimum hours of instruction for children in kindergarten programme\n\n(1) Subject to subregulations (3) and (4), a child enrolled at a kindergarten in a kindergarten programme is to be provided at least 11 hours instruction during each week in which the kindergarten is open for instruction (the minimum period).\n\n(2) The minimum period does not include time for recess or lunch.\n\n(3) The minimum period is reduced by 25% for each public holiday on which a kindergarten is closed during a week in which the kindergarten would otherwise be open for instruction.\n\n(4) The chief executive officer may reduce the minimum period if the reduction in the period would benefit —\n\n(a) children enrolled in a kindergarten programme; or\n\n(b) the management of a kindergarten.\n\n##### 138. Enrolment register to be kept and retained\n\nThe teacher in charge of a kindergarten must ensure that —\n\n(a) a register is kept showing, in respect of each child enrolled at the kindergarten, the following information —\n\n(i) the name of the child;\n\n(ii) the date of birth of the child;\n\n(iii) the date of the enrolment and the date on which the enrolment ceases;\n\n(iv) the immunisation status of the child given in accordance with the *Public Health Act 2016* section 141B;\n\n(v) if the child has a Medicare number, the Medicare number of the child;\n\nand\n\n(b) the particulars recorded in the register are retained by the kindergarten for 7 years from the day on which the child’s enrolment ceases.\n\n[Regulation 138 amended: Gazette 21 Dec 2018 p. 4853; 19 Jul 2019 p. 2845.]\n\n##### 139. Permanent retention of kindergarten enrolment particulars\n\n(1) When the period referred to in regulation 138(b) expires in relation to particulars recorded in the register of a kindergarten, the chief executive officer is to ensure that the particulars are retained permanently, in so far as is practicable.\n\n(2) If it is not practicable to retain permanently the particulars referred to in subregulation (1), the particulars must not be disposed of or destroyed without the authority of the chief executive officer.\n\n(3) This regulation applies whether or not the kindergarten referred to in subregulation (1) has closed.\n\n[Regulation 139 amended: Gazette 11 Nov 2014 p. 4259.]\n\n### Division 4 — Financial provisions for kindergartens\n\n#### Subdivision 1 — Contributions and costs\n\n##### 140. What contributions may be sought (Act s. 207)\n\n(1) A contribution must not be sought towards the cost of instruction in a kindergarten programme if the instruction is provided by a member of the teaching staff.\n\n(2) No charge is payable in respect of a child for —\n\n(a) materials provided in a non‑optional component of a kindergarten programme; or\n\n(b) services or facilities for use in, or associated with the provision of, a non‑optional component of a kindergarten programme.\n\n(3) A contribution determined in accordance with regulation 141 may be sought for the costs of the materials, services or facilities referred to in subregulation (2).\n\n##### 141. Contributions, determining and limits on (Act s. 207)\n\n(1) The teacher in charge of a kindergarten may from time to time determine a contribution for the materials, services or facilities referred to in regulation 140(2).\n\n(2) Materials for the purposes of regulation 140(2)(a) are as set out in regulation 59 as if the references in that provision to a school were references to a kindergarten.\n\n(3) Services and facilities for the purposes of regulation 140(2)(b) are as set out in regulation 60 as if the references in that provision to a school were references to a kindergarten.\n\n(4) The maximum total amount of a contribution in respect of a child enrolled in a kindergarten programme is —\n\n(a) $40.00 for 2001; and\n\n(b) $60.00 for each kindergarten year from 1 January 2002.\n\n(5) A contribution determined under subregulation (1) is not to be applied to the purchase, maintenance or replacement of equipment, furniture and fittings provided for the purposes of a kindergarten.\n\n##### 142. Extra cost optional component, cost of etc. (Act s. 207)\n\nextra cost optional component means an optional component of a kindergarten programme having a cost that is not incorporated into the determination of the kindergarten’s contributions under regulation 141 because of the high cost associated with the provision of that optional component.\n\n(2) The teacher in charge of a kindergarten may from time to time determine the costs to be paid for participation in an extra cost optional component of a kindergarten programme.\n\n(3) The costs of an extra cost optional component must not include a fee for instruction if the instruction is provided by a member of the teaching staff.\n\n(4) The participation of a child in an extra cost optional component is conditional on payment of the costs of that component.\n\n##### 143. Items for child’s personal use to be supplied by child\n\nThe teacher in charge of a kindergarten may from time to time determine the items that are to be supplied by a child for the child’s personal use in a kindergarten programme.\n\n##### 144. Approval and notification of determinations\n\n(1) A determination under regulation 141(1), 142(2) or 143 does not have effect until it has been approved by the governing body or its management committee.\n\n(2) Not later than 2 months before the beginning of a kindergarten year —\n\n(a) all contributions for the year must be determined under regulation 141(1) and approved under subregulation (1); and\n\n(b) the teacher in charge is to take reasonable steps to notify the persons from whom a contribution may be sought, of the amount to be sought by way of contribution; and\n\n(c) all items to be supplied by a child for the year must be determined under regulation 143 and approved under subregulation (1); and\n\n(d) the teacher in charge is to take reasonable steps to notify a parent of a child if the child is to supply any such item.\n\n(3) The costs of an extra cost optional component to be provided by a kindergarten must be determined under regulation 142(2) and approved under subregulation (1) at least 4 weeks before the component is to be provided.\n\n(4) If an extra cost optional component may be participated in by a particular child, the teacher in charge is to take reasonable steps to notify a parent of the child of the costs of that component at least 3 weeks before the component is to be provided.\n\n(5) When notifying a person —\n\n(a) for the purposes of subregulation (2)(b) it is sufficient for the teacher in charge to notify the person of the total contribution to be sought for the kindergarten year in respect of the child, itemising each component of the contribution and the contribution for each component; and\n\n(b) for the purposes of subregulation (4) it is sufficient for the teacher in charge to notify the person by itemising each component of those costs and the costs for each component.\n\n(6) A determination or notification referred to in subregulation (2) for the purposes of the 2001 kindergarten year need not comply with the time limit referred to in that subregulation but must be made or occur by 28 February 2001.\n\n#### Subdivision 2 — Allocation of moneys appropriated by Parliament\n\n##### 145. Classes of children prescribed (Act s. 210(2)(b))\n\nThe classes of children prescribed for the purposes of section 210(2)(b) are those classes whose members satisfy the criteria set out in regulation 12(a) and (b), 13(a) and (b), 14(a) and (b) or 14A(a) and (b).\n\n[Regulation 145 amended: Gazette 17 Dec 2002 p. 5910; 22 Jul 2005 p. 3370.]\n\n##### 146. Allocation of moneys appropriated by Parliament (Act s. 210(3))\n\n(1) Moneys that have been appropriated by Parliament for the purpose of assisting kindergartens may be allocated for one or more of the following matters —\n\n(a) providing children with materials, services or facilities for use in kindergarten programmes;\n\n(b) the purchase, maintenance or replacement of kindergarten equipment, furniture or fittings;\n\n(c) costs of renting or leasing kindergarten premises;\n\n(d) water, electricity, gas and telephone costs;\n\n(e) gardening and cleaning costs;\n\n(f) insurance costs.\n\n(2) The allocation of moneys referred to in subregulation (1) to a kindergarten may be conditional on the provision by the kindergarten’s governing body of statistical, educational and financial information about the kindergarten and if the condition is not complied with the chief executive officer may recover the moneys as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction.\n\n## Part 11 — Miscellaneous\n\n##### 147. Independent minor, designation of child as\n\n(1) The principal of a school at which a child is enrolled or wishes to be enrolled may designate the child to be a child for the purposes of the provisions of the Act set out in the Table to this subregulation that are relevant to the school (an independent minor) if the principal is satisfied that the child has the capacity to make his or her own decisions in relation to —\n\n(a) an educational programme for the child at the school; and\n\n(b) the administrative requirements of the school.\n\nTable\n\n| s. 17(1)(d)   s. 20(2)(a)(ii)   s. 24(2)(b)   s. 25(1) in the definition of    ***responsible person***     paragraph (b)   s. 26(2)(c)(ii)   s. 27(3)(b)   s. 30(4)(b) | s. 31(2)(b)   s. 40(5)(b)   s. 74(2) in the definition    of ***person*** paragraph (b)   s. 83(3)(a)(ii)   s. 100(5)(b)   s. 106(1)(b)   s. 108(4)(b) |\n| --- | --- |\n\n(2) A principal is not to designate a child as an independent minor —\n\n(a) without having taken into account —\n\n(i) the existence or absence of a relationship between the child and a parent of the child or a person responsible for the child; and\n\n(ii) the nature of the relationship, if any;\n\nand\n\n(b) unless the principal is satisfied that no working relationship exists between the child and any of the child’s parents or a person responsible for the child.\n\n(3) A decision to designate a child as an independent minor —\n\n(a) must be in writing and recorded at the school referred to in subregulation (1) (the school); and\n\n(b) applies only in relation to the school; and\n\n(c) is of no effect when the child ceases to be enrolled at the school; and\n\n(d) is to be reviewed by the principal of the school at least once every 6 months; and\n\n(e) may be reviewed or revoked at any time by the principal of the school.\n\n(4) This regulation does not apply to a child in respect of whom a protection order (time‑limited) or a protection order (until 18), as those terms are defined in the *Children and Community Services Act 2004* section 3, is made.\n\n[Regulation 147 amended: Gazette 24 Aug 2007 p. 4319.]\n\n##### 148A. Anaphylactic reaction in child, treatment of by staff member\n\nadrenaline means adrenaline in the form in which it is classified as a Schedule 3 poison under the *Medicines and Poisons Act 2014*;\n\nauto‑injector means a device containing a single pre‑measured dose of adrenaline, with a mechanism for administering the dose by injection;\n\nenrolled child means —\n\n(a) a child enrolled at a community kindergarten; or\n\n(b) a student;\n\nstaff member means a natural person who is —\n\n(a) employed in the department referred to in section 228; or\n\n(b) employed in a school registered under section 160.\n\n(2) A staff member may, in the course of the staff member’s employment as a staff member, administer adrenaline to an enrolled child by means of an auto‑injector if the staff member reasonably suspects that the child is suffering an anaphylactic reaction, even if there is no consent to the administration of the adrenaline.\n\n[Regulation 148A inserted: Gazette 10 Jul 2012 p. 3061; amended: Gazette 17 Jan 2017 p. 417.]\n\n##### 148. Exemption from regulations, grant etc. of by Minister\n\n(1) The Minister may, at any time, by notice published in the *Gazette* —\n\n(a) exempt a person, school or community kindergarten from provisions of these regulations and impose conditions subject to which an exemption applies; or\n\n(b) revoke or vary an exemption; or\n\n(c) impose any further condition or vary or revoke a condition.\n\n(2) An exemption or condition may be limited in its operation to a specified period.\n\n(3) The following are to be set out in the notice —\n\n(a) either —\n\n(i) the person, persons or classes of person to whom the exemption applies; or\n\n(ii) the school, schools or classes of school to which the exemption applies,\n\nas is relevant to the case;\n\n(b) the regulation or regulations to which the exemption applies and the period of the exemption;\n\n(c) if relevant, each condition subject to which the exemption applies and the period of the condition;\n\n(d) if relevant, the revocation or details of the variation of the exemption;\n\n(e) if relevant, the further conditions or revocation or details of the variation of an existing condition.\n\n(4) The regulations set out in the notice do not apply to a person who, or school which, is exempted under subregulation (1) if the conditions of the exemption are being complied with.\n\n##### 149. Limits on charges etc., CEO to review regularly\n\n(1) At least once every 3 years the chief executive officer is to review the limits in the following regulations and consider whether the limits should be changed and what the new limits should be —\n\n(a) regulations 61(1), 61(2) and 61(3) (charges and contributions for materials, services and facilities in government schools);\n\n(b) regulation 63(1) (fees for instruction of overseas students and adult students);\n\n(c) regulation 102(2) (fees for residential accommodation on government school premises);\n\n(d) regulation 141(4)(b) (contributions for materials, services and facilities in community kindergartens).\n\n(2) When conducting —\n\n(a) a review referred to in subregulation (1)(a) the chief executive officer is to consult with a representative group of principals of government schools, parents and community members; and\n\n(b) a review referred to in subregulation (1)(b) the chief executive officer is to take into account —\n\n(i) changes in the costs of providing instruction to overseas students and adult students at government schools; and\n\n(ii) the views of representative principals of government schools and community members;\n\nand\n\n(c) a review referred to in subregulation (1)(c) the chief executive officer is to take into account changes in the costs of providing residential accommodation on school premises; and\n\n(d) a review referred to in subregulation (1)(d) the chief executive officer is to consult with a representative group of teachers in charge of community kindergartens, parents and community members; and\n\n(e) any review under subregulation (1) the chief executive officer may take into account any other matter that is relevant to the review.\n\n","sortOrder":26},{"sectionNumber":"Sch 1","sectionType":"schedule","heading":"Scholarships","content":"Schedule 1 — Scholarships\n\n[r. 13(b)]\n\nAusAID Scholarship\n\nfull scholarship awarded by the Commonwealth of Australia to a person who, because of the scholarship, is permitted under a law of the Commonwealth to reside in Australia\n\nfull scholarship awarded by the Curtin University of Technology, the Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University or The University of Western Australia\n\n[Schedule 1 inserted: Gazette 17 Dec 2002 p. 5910.]\n\n","sortOrder":27},{"sectionNumber":"Sch 2","sectionType":"schedule","heading":"Entitlement to enrolment at government school","content":"Schedule 2 — Entitlement to enrolment at government school\n\n[r. 14A(b)]\n\nDivision 1 — Visas held by child or person on whom child is dependent\n\n| 1. | 188 | Business Innovation and Investment (Provisional) |\n| 2. | 300 | Prospective Marriage |\n| 3. | 309 | Partner (Provisional) |\n| 4. | 401 | Temporary Work (Long Stay Activity) |\n| 5. | 402 | Training and Research |\n| 6. | 403 | Temporary Work (International Relations) |\n| 7. | 407 | Training |\n| 8. | 408 | Temporary Activity |\n| 9. | 444 | Special Category |\n| 10. | 445 | Dependent Child |\n| 11. | 449 | Humanitarian Stay (Temporary) |\n| 12. | 457 | Temporary Work (Skilled) |\n| 13. | 461 | New Zealand Citizen Family Relationship (Temporary) |\n| 14. | 476 | Skilled — Recognised Graduate |\n| 15. | 482 | Temporary Skill Shortage |\n| 16. | 485 | Temporary Graduate |\n| 17. | 489 | Skilled — Regional (Provisional) |\n| 18. | 491 | Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) |\n| 19. | 494 | Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (Provisional) |\n| 20. | 576 | Foreign Affairs or Defence Sector |\n| 21. | 785 | Temporary Protection |\n| 22. | 786 | Temporary (Humanitarian Concern) |\n| 23. | 790 | Safe Haven Enterprise |\n| 24. | 820 | Partner |\n| 25. | 850 | Resolution of Status (Temporary) |\n| 26. | 995 | Diplomatic (Temporary) |\n\n[Division 1 inserted: SL 2020/101 r. 5.]\n\nDivision 2 — Visas for which child or person on whom child is dependent has validly applied\n\n| 1. | 785 | Temporary Protection |\n| 2. | 790 | Safe Haven Enterprise |\n| 3. | 866 | Protection |\n\n[Division 2 inserted: SL 2020/101 r. 5.]\n\nSchedule 3A — Overseas students with entitlement to enrolment at government school\n\n[r. 3(1)]\n\n| 1. | 457 | Temporary Work (Skilled) |\n| 2. | 482 | Temporary Skill Shortage |\n\n[Schedule 3A inserted: SL 2020/101 r. 5.]\n\n[Schedule 3 deleted: Gazette 16 Jan 2015 p. 314.]\n\n![dline]()\n\nNotes\n\nThis is a compilation of the *School Education Regulations 2000* and includes amendments made by other written laws. For provisions that have come into operation, and for information about any reprints, see the compilation table.\n\nCompilation table\n\n| **Citation** | **Published** | **Commencement** |\n| *School Education Regulations 2000* | 29 Dec 2000 p. 7795‑900 | 1 Jan 2001 (see r. 2) |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations 2002* | 17 Dec 2002 p. 5906‑11 | 17 Dec 2002 |\n| *Equality of Status Subsidiary Legislation Amendment Regulations 2003* Pt. 37 | 30 Jun 2003 p. 2581‑638 | 1 Jul 2003 (see r. 2 and *Gazette* 30 Jun 2003 p. 2579) |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations 2003* | 10 Oct 2003 p. 4401‑3 | 10 Oct 2003 |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations 2005* | 22 Jul 2005 p. 3369‑71 | 22 Jul 2005 |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2005* | 2 Dec 2005 p. 5810 | 2 Dec 2005 |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2005* | 23 Dec 2005 p. 6254‑5 | 1 Jan 2006 (see r. 2) |\n| **Reprint 1: The *School Education Regulations 2000* as at 3 Mar 2006** (includes amendments listed above) | | |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations 2006* | 17 Nov 2006 p. 4760‑2 | 1 Jan 2007 (see r. 2) |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations 2007* | 24 Aug 2007 p. 4317‑19 | r. 1 and 2: 24 Aug 2007 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 25 Aug 2007 (see r. 2(b)) |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations 2009* | 13 Nov 2009 p. 4535 | r. 1 and 2: 13 Nov 2009 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 14 Nov 2009 (see r. 2(b)) |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations 2010* | 21 Dec 2010 p. 6754 | r. 1 and 2: 21 Dec 2010 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 1 Jan 2011 (see r. 2(b)) |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations 2012* | 10 Jul 2012 p. 3060‑1 | r. 1 and 2: 10 Jul 2012 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 1 Jan 2013 (see r. 2(b) and *Gazette* 14 Dec 2012 p. 6195) |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2012* | 14 Aug 2012 p. 3830‑1 | r. 1 and 2: 14 Aug 2012 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 15 Aug 2012 (see r. 2(b)) |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2012* | 27 Nov 2012 p. 5737 | r. 1 and 2: 27 Nov 2012 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 28 Nov 2012 (see r. 2(b)) |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations (No. 4) 2012* | 4 Dec 2012 p. 5909 | r. 1 and 2: 4 Dec 2012 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 1 Jan 2013 (see r. 2(b)) |\n| **Reprint 2: The *School Education Regulations 2000* as at 1 Mar 2013** (includes amendments listed above) | | |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations 2013* | 21 Jun 2013 p. 2446-7 | r. 1 and 2: 21 Jun 2013 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 22 Jun 2013 (see r. 2(b)) |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations 2014* | 11 Nov 2014 p. 4255‑61 | r. 1 and 2: 11 Nov 2014 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 12 Nov 2014 (see r. 2(b)) |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2014* | 8 Jan 2015 p. 103‑4 | r. 1 and 2: 8 Jan 2015 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 27 Apr 2015 (see r. 2(b) and *Gazette* 17 Apr 2015 p. 1371) |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations 2015* | 16 Jan 2015 p. 312‑14 | r. 1 and 2: 16 Jan 2015 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 2 Feb 2015 (see r. 2(b) and *Gazette* 16 Jan 2015 p. 311) |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2016* | 10 Jan 2017 p. 229-30 | r. 1 and 2: 10 Jan 2017 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 24 Jan 2017 (see r. 2(b) and *Gazette* 10 Jan 2017 p. 165) |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations 2016* | 17 Jan 2017 p. 417 | r. 1 and 2: 17 Jan 2017 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 30 Jan 2017 (see r. 2(b) and *Gazette* 17 Jan 2017 p. 403) |\n| **Reprint 3: The *School Education Regulations 2000* as at 1 Sep 2017** (includes amendments listed above) | | |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations 2017* | 22 Dec 2017 p. 5977‑8 | r. 1 and 2: 22 Dec 2017 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 23 Dec 2017 (see r. 2(b)) |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations 2018* | 21 Dec 2018 p. 4852‑3 | r. 1 and 2: 21 Dec 2018 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 1 Jan 2019 (see r. 2(b)) |\n| *Education Regulations (Immunisation Requirements for Enrolment) Amendment Regulations 2019* Pt. 2 | 19 Jul 2019 p. 2844-6 | 22 Jul 2019 (see r. 2(b) and *Gazette* 19 Jul 2019 p. 2841) |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations 2020* | SL 2020/15   17 Mar 2020 | r. 1 and 2: 17 Mar 2020 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1, 2 and 4: 18 Mar 2020 (see r. 2(c));    r. 4: 17 Apr 2020 (see r. 2(b)) |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2020* | SL 2020/101   30 Jun 2020 | r. 1 and 2: 30 Jun 2020 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 1 Jul 2020 (see r. 2(b)) |\n| *School Education Amendment Regulations 2024* | SL 2024/118 26 Jun 2024 | 1 Jul 2024 (see r. 2(b) and SL 2024/111 cl. 2) |\n\nDefined terms\n\n*[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]*\n\n**Defined term Provision(s)**\n\nabsolute majority 119(1)\n\nadrenaline 148A(1)\n\nadult student 3(1)\n\nadvance determination 130(1), 130A(1)\n\nadvisory panel 130(1)\n\narrangement 49\n\narrangements previously notified 11D(1)\n\nassociation 121\n\nAustralian Immunisation Register 3(1)\n\nauthorised person 68(3), 73, 86, 91\n\nauto‑injector 148A(1)\n\nbreach of school discipline 3(1)\n\ncampus 3(1)\n\ncode of conduct 3(1)\n\ncommencement day 130A(1)\n\ncontribution 58, 132\n\nCouncil 120(1)\n\ncourse 11C(1)\n\ndirection 69(1)\n\ndress code 3(1)\n\neducational programme 128(1)\n\nenrolled child 148A(1)\n\nexisting school 133(2)\n\nextra cost optional component 58, 142(1)\n\nfirst charges payment year 3(1)\n\ngoverning body 3(1)\n\nindependent minor 3(1), 147(1)\n\nkindergarten 132\n\nkindergarten programme 3(1)\n\nlicence 3(1)\n\nlink school 3(1)\n\nmember of staff 3(1)\n\nminimum period 137(1)\n\nnon‑complying student 36(1)\n\nnon‑compulsory education 129(1)\n\nnon‑system school 130(1)\n\noption 11A\n\norder 70(1)\n\noutline of curriculum and assessment 3(1)\n\noverseas student 3(1)\n\nPart 4 CEO 3(1)\n\nparticipation value 11D(1)\n\nperson responsible for a student 3(2)\n\npolicy direction 3(1)\n\npre‑primary programme 3(1)\n\nprimary education 129(1)\n\nprimary programme 3(1)\n\nprincipal 108(5)\n\nprohibition order 3(1)\n\nproposed kindergarten 133(1)\n\nregistrar 3(1)\n\nSchedule 3A visa holder 3(1)\n\nscheme 54\n\nschool 103(1), 147(3)\n\nschool administrator 3(1)\n\nschool planning proposal 130(1)\n\nschool premises 3(1)\n\nschool system 130(1)\n\nschool’s premises 3(1)\n\nsecondary education 129(1)\n\nsecondary programme 3(1)\n\nsection 3(1)\n\nsecurity coordinator 3(1)\n\nserious breach of school discipline 3(1)\n\nsibling 3(1)\n\nspecial reasons 65(3)\n\nspecialist programme 3(1)\n\nspecified 86\n\nstaff member 148A(1)\n\nvaccine preventable notifiable infectious disease 3(1)\n\nvehicle 3(1)\n\nvisa 3(1)\n\nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). To view relevant information and for a link to a copy of the licence, visit www.legislation.wa.gov.au.\n\nAttribute work as: © State of Western Australia 2024.\n\nBy Authority: GEOFF O. LAWN, Government Printer\n","sortOrder":28}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. Learn more: https://ai-sdk.dev/unauthenticated-ai-gateway","source":"analysis-cron"},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":8,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"Since its original enactment the Regulations have materially broadened and operationalised the scope of the School Education Act rather than remaining narrowly administrative. Notable scope expansions include: (a) detailed management of school premises and on‑site powers (traffic control, vehicle removal, temporary closure, property disposal) well beyond elementary enrolment/attendance rules (Parts 5 Divs. 6–10); (b) comprehensive financial regimes and fee caps for charges, overseas/adult student fees and residential accommodation, plus tri‑annual review obligations (Part 4, regs 61, 63, 102, 149); (c) sector governance and commercial interaction rules (Councils, P&Cs, advertising/sponsorship and naming rights — Parts 6–7 and regs 49–53); (d) health‑related operational rules including immunisation data collection, authorised administration of adrenaline for anaphylaxis (regs 6, 148A) and head‑lice powers (r. 29); and (e) immigration‑linked enrolment entitlements and visa‑specific schedules (Schedules 2 and 3A, regs 14A, 62). These additions demonstrate the instrument’s evolution from technical implementation to a detailed operational code governing many everyday aspects of school life and interactions with external parties."},"complexity_factors":["Very large instrument: covers 150+ regulations across 11 Parts and multiple Schedules (broad subject range: enrolment, discipline, health, finance, premises, governance, non‑government standards, kindergartens).","Extensive defined terms: over 70 defined terms in regulation 3 and the Defined terms list, used throughout the instrument with specialized meanings (eg. \"overseas student\", \"independent minor\", \"arrangement\").","Heavy cross‑referencing to primary legislation: frequent references to numerous sections of the School Education Act 1999 (eg. ss.16,19,76,79,81,90,96D,127,159) and other Acts (Public Health Act 2016, Migration Act 1958, Medicines and Poisons Act 2014).","Multiple conditional and nested rules: e.g. enrolment priority tiers (regs 15–16), suspension ceilings with layered exceptions and review steps (regs 43–46A), and calculation rules for part‑time/full‑time participation (regs 11B–11D).","Discretion nodes: many provisions vest subjective powers in principals, the CEO and the Minister (eg. waivers of fees, exemptions, temporary closures, approval of special religious educators) which produce variability and require guidance (regs 48, 65–66, 82, 148).","Financial complexity: different caps for contributions, charges and fees across cohorts (pre‑compulsory, first charges year, overseas students, regional posting costs in reg 61), and mandatory tri‑annual review (reg 149).","Multiple administrative and review pathways: internal reviews by CEO for many principal decisions (regs 98–101) plus statutory complaint schemes requiring procedural fairness (reg 55).","Transitional and amendment layers: the regulations have been amended many times (see compilation table) with transitional provisions (eg. reg 130A); schedules updated to reflect visa subclasses and policy changes, increasing interpretive complexity."],"plain_english_summary":"**What these regulations do (mechanics first)**\n\n- Set the practical rules that make the School Education Act 1999 work across Western Australian schools (both government schools and community kindergartens). They prescribe information to be collected on enrolment registers and how long records are kept (regs 5–11, 21–23, 138–139, 9–10).  \n- Specify who may enrol where and the priority ordering when places are limited (local intake, siblings, specialist programmes, overseas and visa-based entitlements) (regs 12–16, 18–20; Schedules 2 and 3A).  \n- Define minimum instruction hours for kindergarten, pre-primary, primary and secondary programmes and how those hours are calculated and reduced for public holidays (regs 24–27, 137).  \n- Set health, safety and personal‑presentation powers for principals and staff (eg. dealing with medical conditions, head lice checks, hygiene, hazardous clothing or jewellery) and notification duties to parents (regs 28–32, 148A).  \n- Prescribe how school dress codes and codes of conduct operate, the grounds and process for exemptions, and the specific disciplinary responses available for dress-code breaches (regs 33–37).  \n- Provide the disciplinary framework for non‑suspension penalties, detention limits, and suspension rules (maximum durations, process, education during suspension, and special suspension rules where a student is charged with or convicted of a sexual offence) (regs 40–46A).  \n- Regulate advertising, sponsorship and naming rights in government schools, including limits on content and what naming rights are allowed (eg. facilities, events, prizes — but not the school or its programmes) (regs 49–53).  \n- Limit what materials, services and facilities schools may charge for, set caps on voluntary contributions and charges and prescribe fees for overseas and adult students and residential accommodation (regs 58–66, 102, 61, 63).  \n- Give principals and authorised staff powers to set directions, prohibit items, confiscate student property, order people to leave or remove animals, temporarily close premises, control traffic on school grounds, remove vehicles, and deal with lost property (regs 69–97).  \n- Prescribe the constitution, membership, meetings, functions and decision rules for government school Councils and requirements for Parents & Citizens’ Associations ( Parts 6–7, regs 104–124).  \n- Set registration, consultation and standards procedures for non‑government schools and community kindergartens, including priority enrolment rules and financial arrangements for kindergartens (Parts 9–10, regs 128–146).  \n- Give the Minister and the chief executive officer (CEO) broad operational discretions: approving persons to provide religious education (r. 48), waiving or determining fees (regs 63–66), granting exemptions from regulations (r. 148), approving Council functions (r. 113), and reviewing and varying decisions under Part 5 (regs 98–101).  \n\n**Who is affected**\n\n- Students and enrolled children (including overseas, adult students and community kindergarten children): rules affect where and how they enrol, the hours of instruction they must receive, health and discipline measures that apply to them, and fees/contributions they or their families may be required to pay (eg. regs 6, 24–27, 28–32, 36, 61, 63, 140–142).  \n- Parents, guardians and persons responsible for students: information collection obligations, voting rights for Council elections, notification duties and potential costs (regs 5, 6, 109, 124, 141).  \n- Principals and school staff: day‑to‑day powers to manage safety, discipline, enrolment administration, property and premises, and responsibilities to notify or consult the CEO or parents in specified circumstances (eg. regs 11, 28–32, 36, 69–77, 82–85, 95–97).  \n- Chief Executive Officer and Minister: decision‑making, discretionary powers to set fees, approve waivers, grant exemptions, authorise special religious educators, and review school decisions (eg. regs 48, 55, 63–66, 98–101, 148).  \n- Non‑government schools, Councils and Parents & Citizens’ Associations: registration, standards, consultation duties, composition and governance rules (Parts 6–9, 121–124, 128–131A).  \n- Third parties and sponsors: permitted to enter arrangements subject to content and competition limits and rules requiring written agreements above value thresholds (regs 49–53, 50(5)).\n\n**Why it matters (policy rationale, stated and practical effects)**\n\n- Stated purpose: to operationalise the School Education Act by prescribing particulars, procedures and limits needed for consistent administration of school enrolment, attendance, safety, discipline, governance and finance. The regulations translate statutory powers into concrete day‑to‑day rules (see generally Parts 1–11).  \n\n- Practical effects, costs and incentives:\n  - Who pays: parents/families bear direct costs where charges or contributions are lawful (caps in reg 61), and overseas/adult students may pay up to a statutory cap for instruction (reg 63). Principals and the CEO can grant waivers (regs 65–66), which concentrates discretion centrally.  \n  - Who decides: principals have extensive on‑site operational authority (eg. safety, dress, prohibitions, temporary closure — regs 28–36, 69–76, 82), while the CEO and Minister have supervisory, review and policy discretion (eg. regs 48, 55, 98–101, 148).  \n  - Behavioural effects: rules create incentives for parents to supply required items (regs 59, 143), for students to comply with dress and conduct policies (regs 33–36, 40–46A), and for schools to seek sponsorship under defined limits (regs 49–53). Fees and contribution caps channel where costs may shift (eg. limitations on voluntary contributions once a charge is set — reg 61(5)).  \n  - Compliance burden and recordkeeping: seven‑year retention periods for enrolment and attendance records (regs 7, 21, 138) and permanent retention steps for archives (regs 9–10) impose data‑management obligations for schools and the department.  \n  - Discretion and implementation risk: many provisions grant subjective judgments to principals, the CEO or the Minister (eg. whether an order is “appropriate”, whether to waive fees, or to grant exemptions). That enables contextual decision‑making but increases risk of inconsistent application across schools and administrative review demand (regs 78, 65–66, 148, 98–101).  \n  - Opportunity costs and substitution effects: statutory caps may lead schools to reallocate budgets or seek non‑restricted fundraising; sponsorship rules permit some naming rights (facilities/events) while prohibiting school naming (regs 50, 52), shaping which private funds schools can use.\n\n**Concrete legal mechanisms to note**\n- Caps and periodic review: financial caps (eg. reg 61, reg 63, reg 102) are subject to a mandated tri‑annual review by the CEO (reg 149).  \n- Enforcement and penalties: specified monetary penalties for breaches of directions, providing false information, breaches of prohibition or closure orders and traffic non‑compliance (eg. regs 68(2), 75(3), 80, 84, 89).  \n- Reviews and appeals: procedural right to request CEO review of many principal decisions under Part 5 (regs 98–101); schemes for complaints handling are required to meet procedural fairness and Australian standards (reg 55).\n\n**Sections/examples cited**: record retention (regs 7, 9–10), enrolment priorities (regs 15–16), instruction hours (regs 24–27), head‑lice and hygiene powers (regs 29, 31), dress‑code exemptions and enforcement (regs 35–36), suspension rules and maximums including sexual‑offence direction (regs 43–46A), charges and fee caps (regs 59–61, 63), advertising/sponsorship limits (regs 50–53), CEO/Minister discretions and exemptions (regs 48, 55, 65–66, 148), Council constitution and functions (regs 104–114), community kindergarten rules (regs 133–146).\n\n(End of summary.)"},"summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Scope cannot be assessed as the legislative text was not available for analysis. Only a website error message was returned."},"complexity_factors":["No legislative content was retrievable — the source URL returned a 'page not found' error page rather than the actual regulations","Complexity cannot be meaningfully assessed without access to the legislative text"],"plain_english_summary":"## ⚠️ Content Unavailable\n\nThe requested legislation — the **School Education Regulations 2000 (WA)** — could not be retrieved. The page is no longer available at its previous web address due to system and security upgrades on the Western Australian legislation website.\n\n**What this means for you:** No meaningful legal analysis can be provided because the actual text of the regulations was not accessible. Only an error page and an Acknowledgement of Country were returned.\n\n**What you can do:**\n- Visit the [Western Australian legislation website](https://www.legislation.wa.gov.au) directly and search for *School Education Regulations 2000*\n- Contact the Parliamentary Counsel's Office Helpdesk as suggested on the error page\n- Try searching via the menu navigation rather than a direct bookmark or link"},"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"provider":"moonshot","completionTokens":1838},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":8,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"The regulations have expanded significantly beyond their original 2000 scope. Major additions include: anaphylaxis treatment protocols (2012), detailed visa subclass schedules for overseas student enrolment (2002, 2020), specific rules for students charged with sexual offences (2024), significant registration change procedures for non-government schools (2020), and expanded consultation requirements. The original framework has been layered with modern compliance requirements (immunisation registers, visa categories) and safety protocols that were not in the original instrument."},"complexity_factors":["47+ defined terms in the interpretation section (regulation 3), including complex nested definitions like 'serious breach of school discipline' and 'sibling'","Extensive cross-referencing to the School Education Act 1999 (constant references to 'Act s. X' requiring simultaneous reading of the Act)","Nested hierarchical conditional logic in enrolment priority rules (regulations 15, 16, and 136 contain multi-tiered priority tests based on intake areas, siblings, and distance)","Three schedules containing detailed visa subclass tables (Schedules 1, 2, and 3A) that must be read with the body of the regulations","Multiple overlapping divisions for discipline (Part 3 Division 5) with specific exceptions (e.g., regulation 36(6) excludes dress code breaches from suspension)","Transitional provisions and amendments tracked across 20+ years (compilation table shows amendments from 2000-2024), creating layered historical context","11 Parts with multiple Divisions and Subdivisions creating a deep structural hierarchy","Conditional calculation formulas for instruction hours (regulation 27) and 'participation value' percentages for final year options (regulation 11C)"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this legislation does**\n\nThese regulations set the operational rules for schools in Western Australia under the *School Education Act 1999*. They cover government schools, non-government schools, and community kindergartens.\n\n**Key areas covered:**\n\n*   **Enrolment and attendance:** Who can enrol in government schools (including overseas students on specific visas), priority rules when schools are over-capacity (based on sibling attendance and distance), and how long schools must keep enrolment records (7 years, then permanently).\n*   **Running schools:** Minimum hours of instruction (11 hours/week for kindergarten, roughly 25 hours for older students), and principals' powers to manage health and safety (including head lice checks, hygiene requirements, and dress codes).\n*   **Discipline:** Rules for detentions (max 30 minutes unless parents notified), suspensions (max 5 days normally, 10 days for serious breaches), and special procedures for students charged with sexual offences. Corporal punishment is banned.\n*   **School premises:** Principals can ban items, order people to leave, issue prohibition orders (banning entry for up to 60 days), close premises temporarily in emergencies, and tow vehicles.\n*   **Money:** Caps on voluntary contributions ($60/year for younger students) and charges for materials/services. Fees for overseas students (up to $25,000/year) and rules for school sponsorships/advertising.\n*   **Governance:** How School Councils (mix of parents, staff, students, community) are elected and run, and rules for Parents and Citizens' Associations.\n*   **Non-government schools:** Registration requirements, significant changes requiring approval (like adding year levels), and consultation procedures.\n*   **Community kindergartens:** Registration, enrolment priorities, and financial rules.\n\n**Who it affects**\nStudents, parents, school principals, teachers, school councils, non-government school operators, and anyone entering school grounds.\n\n**Why it matters**\nThese rules determine everything from how much parents can be charged for excursions, to when a principal can suspend a student, to who gets priority when a popular local school is full."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/school-education-regulations-2000","history":"/api/acts/school-education-regulations-2000/history","analysis":"/api/acts/school-education-regulations-2000/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/school-education-regulations-2000/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/school-education-regulations-2000/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/school-education-regulations-2000/documents"}}