Regulation 3 Relevant stage of education
For the purposes of section 17(1) of the Act, a pupil shall be regarded as at the relevant stage of his education if, as a registered pupil at a maintained primary school,–
(a)
he has attained the age of four but
(b)
he has not yet attained the age of six and either–
(i)
he is below compulsory school age and is in a reception class or a class, other than a nursery class, at the school into which children below compulsory school age are normally placed on admission to the school, or
(ii)
he is at the first Key Stage.