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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-exemptions-from-registration-order-2008/article-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/979",
  "legislation_title": "The Childcare (Exemptions from Registration) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-exemptions-from-registration-order-2008",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Exempt provision during home education",
  "text": "(1) The circumstances referred to in articles 2(1) to 2(4) are where a person—\n(a) is educating a child under a home education arrangement, and\n(b) the provision made is incidental to the arrangement.\n(2) A “home education arrangement” means an arrangement under which a child, who is of compulsory school age and is receiving full-time education otherwise than at school, is partly or wholly educated by a person other than a parent of the child.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 8 in force at 1.9.2008, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 8(1) the Education Act 1996 (c.56) provides that sections 8(2) and (3) of that Act apply to determine for the purposes of any enactment whether a person is of compulsory school age. Section 8(2) provides that a person begins to be of compulsory school age when he attains the age of five, if he attains that age on a prescribed day, and otherwise at the beginning of the prescribed day next following his attaining that age. Article 2 of the Education (Start of Compulsory School Age) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1607) provides that for the purposes of section 8(2), 31st August and 31st December shall be prescribed days for 1998 and successive years, and 31st March shall be a prescribed day for 1999 and successive years."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/979/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:32:08.062726+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}