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Part 1 — Access to Education

15 Enrolment in Francophone school

Current to 2025-12-11 · Official PDF

(1) If a student's parent is a Francophone who requests that the
student be enrolled in a school operated by a Francophone regional
authority and the student resides in the Francophone education
region within the distance from the school, as determined by the
Francophone regional authority, the student is entitled to attend that
school, and the Francophone regional authority shall
(a) enrol the student in that school, and
(b) ensure that the student is provided with an education
program consistent with the requirements of this Act and the
regulations
that will give the student the opportunity to meet
the standards of education set by the Minister.
(2) If a student's parent is a Francophone who requests that the
student be enrolled in a school operated by a Francophone regional
authority and the student does not reside in the Francophone
education region within the distance from the school, as determined
by the Francophone regional authority, the Francophone regional
authority
(a) may enrol the student in that school under the terms set b y
the Francophone regional authority, and
(b) if the student is enrolled under clause (a), shall ensure that
the student is provided with an education program
consistent with the requirements of this Act and the
regulations
that will give the student the opportunity to meet
the standards of education set by the Minister.
(3) If a student is the child of a Francophone and is enrolled in a
school operated by a Francophone regional authority, the student
continues to be a resident student of a board of a school division or,
if section 4(7) applies to the student, of the Government, but section
11(1)
does not apply to that board or the Minister, as the case may

be, with respect to that student while the student is enrolled in a
school operated by a Francophone regional authority.
(4) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), a Francophone
regional authority that is requested to enrol a student in a senior
high school program beyond a 3rd school year may direct the
student to attend a school designated by the Francophone regional
authority.
(5) A Francophone regional authority shall enrol a resident student
of the Government in a school operated by the Francophone
regional authority as requested by the Minister.
2012 cE-0.3 s15;2020 c11 s4