Religious instruction in Government schools
86 Religious instruction in Government schools
Subject to this section, the CEO may provide for religious instruction to be given to students who are enrolled in a Government school on any conditions, and at any time during school hours, that the CEO considers appropriate.
A parent of a student enrolled in a Government school may, in writing, request the CEO to permit religious instruction to be given to the student by a minister of religion nominated by the parent or by a person authorised by that minister.
The CEO may, if the CEO considers it practicable to do so, permit a minister of religion, or a person authorised by a minister of religion, to give religious instruction during school hours to students whose parents requested that instruction under subsection (2).
Religious instruction permitted under subsection (3) must be given for not less than half an hour at a time in every school week, on the days and at the times that the CEO determines.
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