s 71 Complaints.
(1) If at any time the Secretary of State for Education and Science is satisfied that any registered or provisionally registered school is objectionable upon all or any of the following grounds— (a) that the school premises or any parts thereof are unsuitable for a school; (b) that the accommodation provided at the school premises is inadequate or unsuitable having regard to the number, ages, and sex of the pupils attending the school; (c) that efficient and suitable instruction is not being provided at the school having regard to the ages and sex of the pupils attending thereat; (d) that the proprietor of the school or any teacher employed therein is not a proper person to be the proprietor of an independent school or to be a teacher or other employee in any school, as the case may be; (e) there has been a failure, in relation to a child provided with accommodation by the school, to comply with the duty imposed by section 87 of the Children Act 1989 (welfare of children accommodated in independent schools); the Secretary of State shall serve upon the proprietor of the school a notice of complaint stating the grounds of complaint together with full particulars of the matters complained of, and, unless any of such matters are stated in the notice to be in the opinion of the Secretary of State for Education and Science irremediable, the notice shall specify the measures necessary in the opinion of the Secretary of State for Education and Science to remedy the matters complained of, and shall specify the time, not being less than six months after the service of the notice, within which such measures are thereby required to be taken. (2) If it is alleged by any notice of complaint served under this section that any person employed as a teacher or other employee at the school is not a proper person to be a teacher or other employee in any school, that person shall be named in the notice and the particulars contained in the notice shall specify the grounds of the allegation, and a copy of the notice shall be served upon him. (3) Every notice of complaint served under this section and every copy of such a notice so served shall limit the time, not being less than one month after the service of the notice or copy, within which the complaint may be referred to an Independent Schools Tribunal under the provisions hereinafter contained. (4) If at any time the Secretary of State is satisfied that a person whose employment is prohibited or restricted by virtue of regulations under section 218(6) of the Education Reform Act 1988— (a) is employed in a registered or provisionally registered school in contravention of those regulations, or (b) is the proprietor of such a school, he may order that the school be struck off the register or, as the case may be, that the Registrar is not to register the school. (5) In this section, and in sections 72 and 73 of this Act, “ employee ” means a person employed in work which brings him regularly into contact with persons who have not attained the age of nineteen years.