Education Act 1989

5 Restrictions on enrolment at primary school

• (1) No person under 5 shall be or continue to be enrolled at a primary school, or in a class below form 3 at a composite school.

  (2) No person who turned 14 in any year shall be or continue to be enrolled at a primary school, or in a class below form 3 at a composite school, in the next year.

  (3) No person who, in the opinion of the Secretary,—

  • (a) has completed the work of form 3; or

  • (b) has completed work equivalent to the work of form 2,—

  shall in any year be or continue to be enrolled at a primary school, or in a class below form 3 at a composite school.

  (4) Notwithstanding subsection (1), at any time before 1 January 1993, this Act shall apply to children attending pre-school classes at any school specified in section 3(2) of the Education Amendment Act 1990 as if they are enrolled at the school; but on that day, all those classes shall be deemed to have been disestablished.

  (5) Nothing in subsection (4) limits or affects section 308(4).

  Compare: 1964 No 135 s 109(1)

  Section 5(4): added, on 23 July 1990, by section 3(1) of the Education Amendment Act 1990 (1990 No 60).

  Section 5(5): added, on 23 July 1990, by section 3(1) of the Education Amendment Act 1990 (1990 No 60).