http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/562/contents/made

The Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2001

School welfare, behaviour and attendance

Attendance and truancy

King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

2011-07-04

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES

This Order brings into force section 72 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 on 1st March 2001. Section 72 amends section 444 of the Education Act 1996 (c. 56) to include an aggravated offence where a parent, knowing that his child is failing to attend regularly at school, fails without reasonable justification to cause him to attend. A person guilty of such an offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.