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certificates. The Ministry issues regulations concerning accreditation of previous training or practice. The pupils, apprentices and training candidates shall take active part in the learning situation. The teaching staff is to organise and carry out their teaching in accordance with subject curricula issued pursuant to the present Act. The head teacher shall organise the school in accordance with regulations pursuant to the first paragraph and in accordance with sections 1-1 and 3-3 and regulations pursuant to section 1-3. The Ministry may on application from the county authority permit a school to deviate from regulations concerning subject curricula. Before such permission is granted, the school’s coordinating committee must have submitted a consultation statement. Amended by Acts of 17 Sep 1999 no. 74 (in force 17 Sep 1999, pursuant to the Decree of 17 Sep 1999 no. 1011), 30 June 2000 no. 63 (in force 1 Aug 2000, pursuant to the Decree of 30 June 2000 no. 645), 17 June 2005 no. 105 (in force 17 June 2005, pursuant to the Decree of 17 June 2005 no. 660), 19 Dec 2008 no. 118 (in force 1 Jan 2009, pursuant to the Decree of 19 Des 2008 no. 1424). Section 3-5. Trade and journeyman’s examinations without apprenticeship and schooling It is possible to sit a trade or journeyman’s examination on the basis of sufficiently broad working experience of a trade of a duration that is 25 per cent longer than the stipulated apprenticeship period. The county authority decides whether the working experience indicated by the applicant can be approved, and may in special cases approve shorter periods of experience. Amended by Act of 29 June 2007 no. 91 (in force 1 Aug 2007, pursuant to the Decree of 29 June 2007 no. 758). Section 3-6. The follow-up service The county authority shall provide a follow-up service for young people who have the right to education and training pursuant to section 3-1, and who are neither attending a course of education nor are employed. This service shall be made available until the end of the year during which the person concerned reaches the age of 21. The service also follows up young people who have lost the right to upper secondary education and training pursuant to section 3-8 or 4-6. The Ministry issues regulations concerning the duties of the follow-up service. Amended by Act of 17 June 2005 no. 105 (in force 17 June 2005, pursuant to the Decree of 17 June 2005 no. 660). Section 3-7. School rules, etc. The county authority shall issue regulations concerning school rules for individual upper secondary schools. The rules shall regulate the rights and obligations of the pupils insofar as they are not determined by legislation or in any other manner. The rules shall regulate behaviour as well as specifying measures that may be used against pupils who break the rules and the procedure for dealing with such matters.
The school rules shall be made known to the pupils and the parents. The requirements stated in section 38, first paragraph (c) of the Public Administration Act concerning publication in the Norwegian Legal Gazette do not apply. Corporal punishment or other humiliating forms of treatment must not be used. Before a decision is taken concerning disciplinary action, involving for example exclusion from the teaching or loss of rights, the pupil shall be given the opportunity to present his or her case orally to the person responsible for taking a decision. Section 3-8. Exclusion from the teaching and loss of rights The county authority may lay down in the school rules that pupils guilty of serious or repeated violations of the rules may be excluded from the teaching for up to five days. It shall be the responsibility of the head teacher him/herself to decide whether a pupil shall be excluded from the teaching pursuant to this paragraph after consulting the pupil’s teachers. Unless the county authority determines otherwise, the head teacher may decide that the teachers shall have the authority to make decisions on exclusion from their own teaching for one educational period, limited to two hours. When a pupil persists in behaving in such a way as to seriously disturb working conditions and discipline at the school, or seriously neglects his or her obligations, the pupil may be excluded from the teaching for the remainder of the school year. In connection with a decision concerning exclusion from the teaching for the remainder of the school year, the county authority may also decide that the pupil shall lose the right to upper secondary education and training pursuant to section 3-1. The county authority may not delegate to a body at the school the responsibility for deciding pursuant to the present paragraph that a pupil shall be excluded from the teaching or lose the right to upper secondary education. Before taking a decision concerning exclusion from the teaching or loss of rights, an assessment shall be made as to whether it is possible to use other measures to help or discipline the pupil. Amended by Acts of 17 June 2005 no. 105 (in force 17 June 2005, pursuant to the Decree of 17 June 2005 no. 660), 25 June 2010 no. 49 (in force 1 Aug 2010, pursuant to the Decree of 25 June 2010 no. 982). Section 3-9. Sign language instruction in upper secondary education Young people who have the right to upper secondary education pursuant to section 3-1 and who have sign language as their first language or who, following expert assessment, need such instruction, have the right to choose upper secondary education and training in and through the medium of sign language in a sign language environment as defined in the second paragraph or the right to use a sign language interpreter in ordinary upper secondary schools. The same applies to adults admitted to upper secondary education without rights pursuant to section 3-1. Before a decision is made by the county authority, an expert assessment shall have been submitted. For the purposes of this Act, the term sign language environment shall refer to schools that have specially adapted educational provisions both in the use of sign language and through the medium of sign language for hearing impaired pupils.
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