Morning school shall not be extended beyond the ordinary closing time fixed in the school timetable, nor shall the interval between morning and afternoon school be curtailed. The afternoon school period as indicated in the school timetable shall not be omitted or curtailed on account of weather conditions, except in the case of individual pupils, to ensure their safe return home:
provided that, when in the opinion of the head teacher the weather conditions are such as to make it clearly desirable in the interests of the pupils to depart from the usual school hours, the interval between morning and afternoon school may be curtailed by up to half an hour and the school closed for the day correspondingly earlier:
provided also that the curtailing of the lunch hour and early closing of the school shall not be given effect in any school without the prior approval of the Board of Trustees constituted under the School Trustees Act 1989 or any Act passed in substitution for that Act of the adoption of the practice in general in its school.
Regulation 7 first proviso: inserted, on 28 April 1954, by regulation 2 of the Education (School Attendance) Regulations 1951, Amendment No 1 (SR 1954/63).
Regulation 7 second proviso: inserted, on 28 April 1954, by regulation 2 of the Education (School Attendance) Regulations 1951, Amendment No 1 (SR 1954/63).
Regulation 7 second proviso: amended, on 3 November 1989, by regulation 2(1) of the Education (School Attendance) Regulations 1951, Amendment No 2 (SR 1989/328).