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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-free-of-charge-for-working-parents-england-amendment-regulations-2025/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-free-of-charge-for-working-parents-england-amendment-regulations-2025/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1287",
  "legislation_title": "The Childcare (Free of Charge for Working Parents) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-free-of-charge-for-working-parents-england-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which come into force on 31st December 2025, amend the Childcare (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Inspection Outcomes) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1261) (the “principal Regulations”) to correct a drafting error in regulation 5(4) of those Regulations before they come into force on 1st January 2026.\nThese Regulations are being issued free of charge to all known recipients of the principal Regulations.\nRegulation 5(4) of the principal Regulations amends regulation 44 of the Childcare (Free of Charge for Working Parents) (England) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1134) (the “2022 Regulations”). Regulation 5(4) is amended by this instrument so that, instead of omitting the whole of paragraph (3) of regulation 44 of the 2022 Regulations, that paragraph is amended to omit redundant transitional provision in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b).\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1287/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:08:42.133610+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}