Section 1 Alterations of summer school-leaving date.

England and Wales

C1(1)

For subsections (3) and (4) of section 9 of the M1 Education Act 1962 (under which a person who attains the age of 16 between the end of January and the beginning of September is deemed to attain the upper limit of compulsory school age at the end of the summer term) there shall be substituted—

“(3)
If he attains that age after the end of January but before the next May school-leaving date, he shall be deemed not to have attained.that age until that date.
(4)
If he attains that age after the May school-leaving date and before the beginning of September next following that date, he shall be deemed to have attained that age on that date.”

C2(2)

After subsection (7) of that section there shall be added—

“(8)
In this section “the May school-leaving date” means the Friday before the last Monday in May.”

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: 1962 c. 12

Modifications

C1: The text of s. 1(1) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
C2: The text of s. 1(2) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act repealed (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 56, ss. 582(2), 583(2), SCh. 38 Pt.I(with ss. 1(4), 561, 562, Sch. 39)