{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2001/222",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Assisted Places) (Scotland) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-assisted-places-scotland-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Conditions as to age and education",
  "text": "(1) It shall be a condition that the child shall have attained the age of 5 years before 1st March of the calendar year immediately succeeding the calendar year in which their first assisted year commences.\n(2) A participating school shall not admit to an assisted place a child in relation to whom it is not satisfied that the child will be committed throughout the whole of his first assisted year and any subsequent assisted year to follow a course of school education other than activities in nursery schools and nursery classes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/222/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:46:15.109905+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."
}