New South Wales Consolidated Acts

EDUCATION ACT 1990 - SECT 55

55 Authority to make recommendation about renewal of registration

(1) Within a reasonable time before the registration of a non-government school is to expire, the Authority is to make a written recommendation to the Minister as to whether or not the registration should be renewed.

(2) Before making a recommendation, the Authority, if it is not satisfied that the requirements for, or the conditions of, registration are being complied with at the school, may give a written notice under subsection (3) to the proprietor or principal of the school or, in the case of a school that is a member of a system of non-government schools, the approved authority for the system.

(3) The notice--

(a) is to state that renewal of registration of the school will not be recommended until the matters specified in the notice have been addressed, and

(b) may specify the time within which any such matters should be addressed.

(3A) Without affecting the operation of section 54A (3), the notice may also request the principal or proprietor of the school or the approved authority for the system to provide such documentary or other evidence in support of the application for renewal of registration as the Authority, based on a risk assessment, considers necessary. Despite subsection (1), the Authority is not required to make a recommendation to the Minister about the renewal of registration if any such requested information is not provided.

(4) The Minister, on the advice of the Authority, may, by a written notice given to the proprietor or principal of the school or the approved authority for the system, extend the period for which the school's registration was granted or last renewed, in order to enable the matters concerned to be addressed.

(5) More than one such extension may be granted.

(6) The Authority is to give the proprietor or principal of a non-government school or the approved authority for a system of non-government schools (as the case may require) written notice of a recommendation to the Minister that the registration of the school not be renewed.