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The Secretary of State may from time to time require an education authority to fix for their area any or all of the following dates :—
(a)two or more dates for commencing school attendance, and
(b)two or more dates for terminating school attendance.
The education authority shall intimate to the Secretary of State the dates which they propose to fix, and the Secretary of State may approve the said dates or may, after consultation with the authority and with such other persons as he thinks fit, require the authority to fix other dates. The authority shall fix dates in accordance with the approval or requirement of the Secretary of State, and thereupon a child resident in the area shall for the purpose of attendance at school be deemed to attain any given age on the fixed date next following the day when he actually attains that age.
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