18Exemption from attendance of school-aged child without application

18 Exemption from attendance of school-aged child without application

(1)  A school-aged child is exempted from the requirement to attend a school if –

(a) the child is suspended or temporarily excluded from that school; or

(b) the child has been expelled from that school; or

(c) the child has been, or is a member of a class of school-aged children that has been, exempted under section 13 from the requirement to be enrolled at a school or be home educated; or

(d) the child attends a school which is not, but which the child's parent reasonably believes to be, a school within the meaning of this Act.

(2)  An exemption under this section ceases to have effect on the day on which the event on which the exemption is based ceases to apply.

(3)  A school-aged child who is enrolled at a school is not exempted from the requirement to attend the school by reason only of disability.