The Education (Exclusion from School) (Prescribed Periods) Regulations 1999
These Regulations prescribe the period in which the governing body of a maintained school are required to consider the circumstances of the exclusion, to consider any representations about the exclusion made by or on behalf of the excluded pupil or the local education authority, and to allow such representations to be made at a meeting. By virtue of section 66(2) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, the governing body have a duty to take those steps in any case where they have been notified by the head teacher of a decision on his part: to exclude a pupil in circumstances in which he would, as a result of the exclusion, either be excluded for a total of more than five school days in any one term or would lose an opportunity to take any public examination; to exclude a pupil permanently; or to make permanent a fixed period exclusion.