An Act to enable county schools and voluntary schools to be established for providing full-time education by reference to age-limits differing from those specified in the Education Act 1944, as amended by the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948; to enable maintenance allowances to be granted in respect of pupils at special schools who would be over compulsory school age, or, in Scotland, over school age, but for section 38(1) of the said Act of 1944 or section 32(4) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1962; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[31st July 1964]
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Act amended by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 18(2)
C2Act amended by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 163(1), 231(7), 235(6)
C3Act modified by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 231(7), 235(6), 236(2)(a)
C4Act applied (provinces of Canterbury and York except Channel Islands and Isle of Man) (1. 8. 1991) by Diocesan Boards of Education Measure 1991 (No. 2), s. 7(3);Archbishops' Instrument made 26. 7. 1991
Commencement Information
I1Act wholly in force at Royal Assent
(1)[F1Where proposals with respect to a school maintained or to be maintained by a local education authority are submitted] to the Secretary of State under [F2section 12 or 13 of the Education Act 1980], the proposals may, if the authority or persons submitting the proposals think fit,—
(a)specify an age which is below the age of ten years and six months and an age which is above the age of twelve years, and
(b)provide that the school shall be [F3a school] for providing full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils whose ages are between the ages so specified.
(2)[F4The Secretary of State shall make regulations for determining, or enabling him to determine, whether a school in respect of which proposals making such provision as is mentioned in the preceding subsection are implemented is to be deemed for the purposes of the Education Act 1944 and the other enactments relating to education to be a primary or a secondary school.]
(3)The powers conferred by this section shall be exercisable—
(a)notwithstanding anything contained in the Education Acts 1944 to 1962, and, in particular, in section 7 of the Education Act 1944 (which relates to the stages in which the statutory system of public education is to be organised), but
(b)without prejudice to the exercise of any other power conferred by those Acts.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Education Act 1968 (c. 17), s. 2(a)
F2Words substituted by Education Act 1980 (c. 20, SIF 41:1), s. 16(4), Sch. 3 para. 11
F3Words substituted by Education Act 1968 (c. 17), s. 2(b)
F4S. 1(2) substituted by Education Act 1980 (c. 20, SIF 41:1), s. 16(4), Sch. 3 para. 12
Textual Amendments
F5s. 2 repealed by Education (School-leaving Dates) Act 1976 (c. 5), Sch.
Textual Amendments
F6ss.3, 4, 5(3) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1978 (c. 45), Sch. 1 Pt. V
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(1)This Act may be cited as the Education Act 1964.
(2)The Education Acts 1944 to 1962 and this Act . . . F8 may be cited together as the Education Acts 1944 to 1964.
(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4)This Act, . . . F8, shall be construed as one with the Education Acts 1944 to 1953.
(5)Except in so far as the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Act to an enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended or extended by or under any other enactment.
(6) . . . F8 this Act shall not extend to Scotland; . . . F8
(7)This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.]
Textual Amendments
F7S. 5 repealed (S.) by Education (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 44, SIF 41:2), s. 136(3), Sch. 5.
F8Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1978 (c. 45), Sch. 1 Pt. V