Title: Education (Parental Notification of Non-attendance) AmendmentBill 2007
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Category: parliamentary.copy
Document comments: lc51

Legislative Council—No 51
As introduced and read a first time, 25 July 2007

Education (Parental Notification of Non-attendance) Amendment Bill 2007

Education (Parental Notification of Non-attendance) Amendment Bill 2007
Part 1—Preliminary

Education (Parental Notification of Non-attendance) Amendment Bill 2007
Preliminary—Part 1

Education (Parental Notification of Non-attendance) Amendment Bill 2007
Part 2—Amendment of Education Act 1972

Education (Parental Notification of Non-attendance) Amendment Bill 2007
Amendment of Education Act 1972—Part 2

South Australia
Education (Parental Notification of Non-attendance) Amendment Bill 2007
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Education Act 1972.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Commencement
3	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Education Act 1972
4	Insertion of section 77
77	Non-attendance at school—notification of parent

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Education (Parental Notification of Non-attendance) Amendment Act 2007.
2—Commencement
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.
3—Amendment provisions
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Education Act 1972
4—Insertion of section 77
After section 76 insert:
77—Non-attendance at school—notification of parent
	(1)	The head teacher of a school must ensure that a parent of a student enrolled at the school is notified of any unexplained absence of the student from school.
	(2)	Notification under subsection (1) must be communicated—
	(a)	by SMS message, telephone call or some other means approved by the Minister; and
	(b)	before the end of the school day on which the absence is detected by a member of staff.
	(3)	In this section—
student means a student under the age of 18 years.

LC GP 083-B: the Hon Dennis Hood MLC