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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-provision-of-school-action-plans-order-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1142",
  "legislation_title": "The Deregulation (Provision of School Action Plans) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-provision-of-school-action-plans-order-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "DEREGULATION\nMade 21st March 1997\nComing into force 4th April 1997\nWhereas:\n(a) the Secretary of State for Education and Employment and the Secretary of State for Wales (“the Secretaries of State”) are of the opinion that certain provisions of the School Inspections Act 1996 and which are the subject of this Order impose burdens affecting persons in the carrying on of a trade, business, profession or otherwise and that by amending the provisions concerned it is possible to remove or reduce the burdens so imposed without removing any necessary protection;\n(b) the Secretaries of State have consulted such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests substantially affected by their proposals and such other persons as they consider appropriate;\n(c) it appears to the Secretaries of State that it is appropriate, following that consultation, to proceed with the making of this Order;\n(d) a document setting out their proposals has been laid before Parliament as required by section 3 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 and the period for Parliamentary consideration under section 4 of that Act has expired;\n(e) a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament and has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, in respect of England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, in respect of Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994, hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 57. The provisions of the 1996 Act consolidate provisions of the Education (Schools) Act 1992 (c. 38) and the Education Act 1993 (c. 35)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1994 c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 1 applies to the School Inspections Act 1996 by virtue of paragraph 1(5) of Schedule 8 to that Act."
    }
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  "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."
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