Queensland Consolidated Acts

EDUCATION (GENERAL PROVISIONS) ACT 2006 - SECT 156

156 Enrolment

(1) Subject to subsections (1A) , (2) and (3) , the principal must enrol the prospective student at the school if the prospective student is entitled under this Act to be enrolled at the school.

(1A) The principal must not enrol a child in year 1 of schooling at the school unless satisfied the child—

(a) has undertaken a preparatory year at a State school or non-State school; or

(b) has undertaken education in another State or country that is equivalent to the preparatory year; or

(c) was registered, or provisionally registered, for home education in the year before the proposed year of the child’s enrolment in year 1 of schooling at the school; or

(d) is otherwise ready to be enrolled in year 1 of schooling at the school, considering the child’s attributes.

(2) If the principal reasonably believes the prospective student would, if enrolled at the school, pose an unacceptable risk to the safety or wellbeing of members of the school community, the principal must refer the application to the chief executive to be dealt with under division 2 .

(2A) If the prospective student applied for enrolment as a mature age student of a mature age State school, the school’s principal must, as part of the principal’s consideration of unacceptable risk under subsection (2) , consider the following for each conviction or charge of the student for an offence mentioned in the written report about the student’s criminal history obtained under chapter 8A —

(a) whether the offence is a serious offence;

(b) when the offence was committed or is alleged to have been committed;

(c) the nature of the offence and its relevance to the prospective student being a mature age student of the school;

(d) for a conviction—whether a penalty was imposed, and the nature of the penalty.

(3) If the school is a special school, the principal must refer the application to the chief executive to be dealt with under division 3 .