Basic Education Act

35. Incentives and prohibition of holding back and expulsion.

Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force

35. Incentives and prohibition of holding back and expulsion.

(1)Pupils shall be given appropriate incentives to learn and complete basic education.

(2)No pupil admitted in a school, subject to subsection (3) shall be held back in any class or expelled from school.

(3)Subject to subsection (1) the Cabinet Secretary may make regulations to prescribe expulsion or the discipline of a delinquent pupil for whom all other corrective measures have been exhausted and only after such child and parent or guardian have been afforded an opportunity of being heard:Provided that such a pupil shall be admitted to an institution that focuses on correction in the context of education.

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Source: Kenya Law