Pre-school children
38 Admission of children under school age to primary school
1
Where a parent of a child who is under school age requests the education authority for the area in which the parent is ordinarily resident to admit the child to a class, other than a nursery class, in a primary school under the management of that authority, the authority shall, if the school education normally provided in such a class is suited to the ability and aptitude of the child, admit the child to such a class.
2
Subsection (1) above is without prejudice to any other power or duty of the education authority.