Education Act 1964 (repealed 1.11.1996)
Where proposals with respect to a school maintained or to be maintained by a local education authority are submitted to the Secretary of State under section 12 or 13 of the Education Act 1980, the proposals may, if the authority or persons submitting the proposals think fit,—
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
provide that the school shall be a school for providing full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils whose ages are between the ages so specified.
The 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.
The powers conferred by this section shall be exercisable—
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
without prejudice to the exercise of any other power conferred by those Acts.
being registered pupils at special schools, are by virtue of section 38(1) of that Act deemed to be of compulsory school age, but
apart from the said section 38(1), would be over compulsory school age.
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any increase attributable to this Act in the sums payable out of moneys so provided by way of Rate-deficiency Grant or Exchequer Equalisation Grant under the enactments relating to local government in England and Wales or in Scotland;
any increase in the sums payable out of moneys so provided under the said enactments in respect of general grants, being an increase arising from any increase in the expenditure relevant to the fixing of the aggregate amounts of those grants which is attributable to the provisions of this Act;
any increase attributable to this Act in the sums payable out of moneys so provided under section 107 of the Education Act 1944 or under section 1(2) of the Education Act 1959.
This Act may be cited as the Education Act 1964.
The Education Acts 1944 to 1962 and this Act . . . may be cited together as the Education Acts 1944 to 1964.
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This Act, . . . , shall be construed as one with the Education Acts 1944 to 1953.
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) . . . this Act shall not extend to Scotland; . . .
Sections 1 and 2 of this Act shall not extend to Scotland; and section 3 of this Act shall not extend to England and Wales.
This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.