The following terms are used throughout the discipline guidelines.

Detention
A "detention" is any relatively short period when a student is:

1. detained at school, or in a particular class, in a student's "non-class" time (recess, lunchtime, recreation time, after school); or
2. excluded from normal classes, or from a particular class, pending negotiated conditions for re-entry (time-out).

Suspension
"Suspension" is the temporary, full-time or part-time withdrawal of a student's right to attend school for a period of two weeks or less, on the authority of the principal.

Exclusion
"Exclusion" is the temporary, full-time or part-time withdrawal of a student's right to attend school for a period of greater than two weeks, on the authority of the Secretary (delegated to the Learning Services General Manager in these guidelines).

Expulsion
"Expulsion" is the full-time withdrawal of a student's right to attend a particular State school, on the authority of the Secretary (delegated to the Learning Services General Manager in these guidelines).

Expulsion from one school does not prohibit the enrolment of the student in another State school.

Prohibition
"Prohibition" is the permanent full-time withdrawal of a student's right to attend any State school, on the authority of the Secretary.

School
In these guidelines, "school" refers to a State school, college or other centre, unit or institution which provides educational instruction up to and including the final year of secondary schooling.

Included in this definition are special schools, Distance Education Tasmania and the provision of any alternative programs involving departmental staff.

Parent
In these guidelines, "parent" means a parent or a legal guardian.