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• A person is excused from attendance at school if,

• the person is receiving satisfactory instruction at home or elsewhere; (b) the person is unable to attend school by reason of sickness or other unavoidable cause; (c) transportation is not provided by a board for the person and there is no school that he or she has a right to attend situated, (i) within 1.6 kilometres from the person’s residence measured by the nearest road if he or she has not attained the age of seven years on or before the first school day in September in the year in question, or (ii) within 3.2 kilometres from the person’s residence measured by the nearest road if he or she has attained the age of seven years but not the age of 10 years on or before the first school day in September in the year in question, or (iii) within 4.8 kilometres from the person’s residence measured by the nearest road if he or she has attained the age of 10 years on or before the first school day in September in the year in question;

• (d) the person has obtained a secondary school graduation diploma or has completed a course that gives equivalent standing; (e) the person is absent from school for the purpose of receiving instruction in music and the period of absence does not exceed one-half day in any week; (f) the person is suspended, expelled or excluded from attendance at school under any Act or under the regulations; (g) the person is absent on a day regarded as a holy day by the church or religious denomination to which he or she belongs; or (h) the person is absent or excused as authorized under this Act and the regulations.  2006, c. 28, s. 5 (1).

• here a school attendance counsellor has reasonable and probable grounds for believing that a child is illegally absent from school, he or she may, at the written request of the parent or guardian of the child or of the principal of the school that the child is required to attend, take the child to the child’s parent or guardian or to the school from which the child is absent provided that, if exception is taken to the school attendance counsellor entering a dwelling place, he or she shall not enter therein.

• Compulsory attendance

• School attendance counsellors

• Minister’s policies and guidelines re concussions 321 (1) The Minister may establish and require boards to comply with policies and guidelines respecting concussions in pupils. 2018, c. 1, s. 8 (3). Regulations, private schools (2) The Minister may make regulations prescribing requirements respecting concussions in pupils of private schools and requiring private schools to comply with the prescribed requirements. 2018, c. 1, s. 8 (3). Consistency with Rowan’s Law (Concussion Safety), 2018 (3) Any policies and guidelines established under subsection (1) and any regulations made under subsection (2) shall be consistent with Rowan’s Law (Concussion Safety), 2018. 2018, c. 1, s. 8 (3). Section Amendments with date in force (d/m/y) 322-326 Repealed:  1997, c. 31, s. 129. Section Amendments with date in force (d/m/y)

• Special Education Tribunals 57.1 Special education advisory committees