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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/designation-of-schools-having-a-religious-character-england-order-2025/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1045",
  "legislation_title": "The Designation of Schools Having a Religious Character (England) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/designation-of-schools-having-a-religious-character-england-order-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been printed in substitution of S.I. 2025/979 which had not been printed in error and has since been removed from legislation.gov.uk.\nEDUCATION, ENGLAND\nMade 27th August 2025\nComing into force 29th August 2025\nThe Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 69(3) and (4) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.\nThe Secretary of State has followed the procedure specified in the Religious Character of Schools (Designation Procedure) Regulations 1998.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 31. Section 69 was amended by paragraph 104 of Schedule 21 to the Education Act 2002 (c. 32) and by paragraph 35 of Schedule 2 to the Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021 (asc. 4). By virtue of S.I. 1999/672, the powers conferred by these provisions are exercisable by the Secretary of State only in relation to England."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/2535; to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1045/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:11:17.732246+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."
}