Education Act 1964 (repealed 1.11.1996)
1964 c.82

 Provisions relating to England and Wales
 New schools with special age-limits.
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(1) 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,—
(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 a school for providing full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils whose ages are between the ages so specified.
(2) 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.
(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.
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 Supplementary provisions

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 Short title, citation, construction and extent.
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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 . . .  may be cited together as the Education Acts 1944 to 1964.
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(4) This Act, . . . , 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) . . .  this Act shall not extend to Scotland; . . . 
(7) This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.