Common use of Withdrawing your Acceptance of a Place Clause in Contracts

Withdrawing your Acceptance of a Place. before your child joins the School 3.1 Notice to withdraw your acceptance of a place before your child joins the School. If you wish to withdraw your acceptance of a place BEFORE your child starts at the School you must either give us a term’s notice to that effect or pay to the School a term’s fees in lieu of notice. This means that if, for example, your child is due to start at the School in September (at the start of an academic year) then you would need to tell us in writing that you wish to withdraw your acceptance of their place on or before the first day of the preceding summer term (ie, the final term of the previous academic year) or pay the fees in lieu referred to above. 3.2 If we receive a term’s notice. If you provide a term’s notice, no further fees will be payable but you will not receive a refund of the deposit (the only exception to this if you are entitled to a refund of the deposit under Clause 2.2 above). 3.3 If we do not receive that period of notice. If you do not provide us with a term’s notice (or if no notice is provided at all) a term’s ees will be payable by you and will become due and owing to the School upon demand as a debt. The term’s fees will be charged at the rate applicable for the term immediately preceding the term when your child was due to start. The School will credit the deposit you have paid (without interest or any entitlement to repayment under Clause 2.2 above) to the payment of the term’s fees you will owe us. Where applicable, such fees will be reduced to take account of any scholarship or bursary awarded to you.