55 Right of sixth-form pupils to be excused from attendance at religious worship

Miscellaneous

55  Right of sixth-form pupils to be excused from attendance at religious worship

(1)     Section 71 of SSFA 1998 (which, in relation to religious education and attendance at religious worship, makes provision for exceptions and special arrangements, and for special schools) is amended as follows.

(2)     For subsection (1) substitute—

“(1)     If the parent of a pupil at a community, foundation or voluntary school requests that he may be wholly or partly excused from receiving religious education given at the school in accordance with the school's basic curriculum, the pupil shall be so excused until the request is withdrawn.

(1A)

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