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Education (School-leaving Dates) Act 1976

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1Alteration of summer school-leaving date.

(1)For subsections (3) and (4) of section 9 of the [1962 c. 12.] Education Act 1962 (under which a person who attains the age of 16 between the end of January and the beginning of September is deemed to attain the upper limit of compulsory school age at the end of the summer term) there shall be substituted—

(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.

(2)After subsection (7) of that section there shall be added—

(8)In this section " the May school-leaving date " means the Friday before the last Monday in May.

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