Education Act 2004
17PTransfer
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17P Transfer (1) The director-general may transfer a student at a government school (the transferring school) if satisfied— and (b) the transferring school has exhausted all reasonable alternatives to transferring the student; and student to remain at the school: (ii) another student; (iii) a member of staff of the school; and (d) it is reasonable to transfer the student considering all the parents about the proposed transfer. (2) However, the director-general must not transfer a student unless the principal of the school recommends the student be transferred. (3) The director-general may transfer the student as recommended by the principal, or subject to any change the director-general considers reasonable. (4) For subsection (1) (c) (i), the director-general may consider whether the relationship between the student and the school has deteriorated to such an extent that remaining at the school is no longer in the student’s best interests.