{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1993-repealed/section-203",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1993-repealed/section-203.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/35",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1993 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1993-repealed",
  "path": "section/203",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "203",
  "heading": "Exemption where child attains 5 years during term.",
  "text": "Where—\n(a) a child attains the age of five years during the school term of a grant-maintained school, and\n(b) arrangements have been made for the admission of the child to that school at the start of the next school term,\nthen, during the period beginning with his attaining that age and ending with the start of that next school term, section 36 of the Education Act 1944 (duty of parents to secure the education of their children) and section 192 of this Act shall not apply to the child.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1944 c. 31."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 203 applied (9.5.1994) by S.I. 1994/1084, reg. 8(1), Sch. 2 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 203 wholly in force at 1.10.1993 see s. 308(3) and S.I. 1993/1975, art.9 Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/35/section/203",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:55.204351+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."
}