Part VI School admissions, attendance and charges
Chapter II School attendance
School attendance: offences and education supervision orders
445 Presumption of age.
1
This section applies for the purposes of any proceedings for an offence under section 443 or 444.
2
In so far as it is material, the child in question shall be presumed to have been of compulsory school age at any time unless the parent proves the contrary.
3
Where a court is obliged by virtue of subsection (2) to presume a child to have been of compulsory school age, section 565(1) (provisions as to evidence) does not apply.