Vocational Education Act, 1930

Reasonable excuses for failure to attend for instruction.

64.—The following shall be reasonable excuses for failure to attend for instruction in accordance with this Part of this Act, that is to say:—

(a) that the young person has been prevented from so attending by sickness;

(b) that the young person is receiving instruction suitable to his age and circumstances otherwise than by attendance for instruction in accordance with this Part of this Act;

(c) that no compulsory course of instruction is provided by the vocational education committee for the district in which the young person resides at any place within a distance of three miles from the residence of the young person measured according to the shortest way lawfully and conveniently available for him;

(d) that the young person has been prevented from so attending by some other sufficient cause.