2In section 4 of the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948 (provisions about children becoming registered school pupils), after subsection (3) insert—
“(3A)General directions given by a local education authority as respects the time of admission of children as registered pupils shall not prevent the admission to a school of children in respect of whose education grants may be made under arrangements which have been made under section 1 of the Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Act 1996.”