Western Australian Current Acts

SCHOOL EDUCATION ACT 1999 - SECT 11B

11B .         Options other than school etc. in final 2 years

        (1)         In the final years of compulsory education a child may, despite section 9(1), participate in one or more of the following options —

            (a)         undertaking —

                  (i)         a course of study provided by a university established under a written law or under a law of another State, or of a Territory, of the Commonwealth; or

                  (ii)         a higher education course registered under section 23 of the Higher Education Act 2004 ;

                or

            (b)         undertaking an approved VET course within the meaning given to that term by the Vocational Education and Training Act 1996 section 5(1); or

            (c)         being an apprentice; or

            (d)         being employed under a contract of employment otherwise than in a capacity mentioned in paragraph (c), but subject to approval being in force under section 11G; or

            (e)         undertaking a course prescribed under subsection (2).

        (2)         The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette , prescribe —

            (a)         a course; or

            (b)         a class or description of courses,

                that does not otherwise come within subsection (1), to be an option for the purposes of that subsection.

        (3)         An order under subsection (2) is to specify for a course the person or body that is the provider of the course.

        (4)         An order under subsection (2) is subsidiary legislation for the purposes of the Interpretation Act 1984 .

        [Section 11B inserted: No. 22 of 2005 s. 20; amended: No. 44 of 2008 s. 61(4); No. 46 of 2012 s. 9.]