WESTERN CAPE PROVINCIAL PAELIAMENT

NEGOTIATING MANDATE OF THE WESTERN CAPE

PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT

DATED 26 OCTOBER


Report of the Standing Committee on Education, Cultural Affairs and Sport on the Education Laws Amendment Bill [B23B - 2005] (NCOP), dated 26 October 2005, as follows:


The Standing Committee on Education, Cultural Affairs and Sport, having considered the subject to the Education Laws Amendment Bill [B23B -2005] (NCOP), referred to the Provincial Parliament in terms of the rules of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), begs to report that it confers on the Western Cape's delegation in the NCOP the authority to support the Bill with the following amendments:


1. Section 9(1 ), paragraph 2(a)(1 ) and substitute with:


"The governing body may suspend a learner, with reasons, who is suspected of serious misconduct, from attending school with immediate effect as a precautionary measure on reasonable grounds, provided the learner is given an opportunity to make representations to the governing body as soon as is reasonably possible but not later than 48 hours after the suspension, requesting that the suspension be revoked."


2. Insert before 41 (6) the following clause:


A public school must keep a register or an parents who have outstanding school fees and have been handed over to enforce the payment of school fees by process of law, which register must the initial debt, interest accrued, legal costs, collection commission and other related costs."


MS JOYCE WITBOOI: CHAIRPERSON