(1)The provisions of subsection (2) to (4) of this section shall have effect in relation to any person who on a date when either—
(a)he is a registered pupil at a school, or
(b)not being such a pupil, he has been a registered pupil at a school within the preceding period of twelve months,
attains an age which (apart from this section) would in his case be the upper limit of the compulsory school age.
(2)If he attains that age on any date from the beginning of September to the end of January, he shall be deemed not to have attained that age until the end of the appropriate spring term at his school.
[F1(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.]
(5)The provisions of this section shall have effect for the purposes of the Act of 1944 and for the purposes of any enactment whereby the definition of compulsory school age in that Act is applied or incorporated; and for references in any enactment to section eight of the M1Education Act 1946 there shall, in relation to compulsory school age, be substituted references to this section:
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2
(6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3
(7)In this section “the appropriate spring term”, in relation to a person, means the last term at his school which ends before the month of May next following the date on which he attains the age in question, . . . . . . F4; and any reference to a person’s school is a reference to the last school at which he is a registered pupil for a term ending before the said month of May . . . . . . F4 or for part of such a term.
[F5(8) In this section “the May school-leaving date” means the Friday before the last Monday in May.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 9(3)(4) substituted by Education (School-leaving Dates) Act 1976 (c. 5), s. 1(1)
F2S. 9(5) proviso repealed by Education (School-leaving Dates) Act 1976 (c. 5), Sch.
F4Words repealed by Education (School-leaving Dates) Act 1976 (c. 5), Sch.
Marginal Citations