{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursery-education-england-regulations-2000/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursery-education-england-regulations-2000/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/107",
  "legislation_title": "The Nursery Education (England) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursery-education-england-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Nursery Education",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 1(2)(b) of the Act (prescribing a time, earlier than the time in section 1(2)(a), after which education provided for children is nursery education) there is prescribed the day immediately preceding whichever is the later of–\n(a) the start of the first term starting after the child has attained the age of 3 years; or\n(b) if the child’s third birthday falls within one of the periods specified in paragraph (2), the start of the term following the term referred to in that paragraph.\n(2) The periods referred to in paragraph (1) and regulation 8(7) are, in any year–\n(a) the period commencing on 1st April and ending with the start of the Summer term of that year;\n(b) the period commencing on 1st September and ending with the start of the Autumn term of that year; and\n(c) the period commencing on 1st January and ending with the start of the Spring term of that year.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2) “term” means the term kept in relation to the education provided, or to be provided, or under consideration, for the child, as the case may be, and, in any year, Spring term, Summer term and Autumn term mean, respectively, the term which starts in January, in April and in September.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/107/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:37.067829+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."
}