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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/designation-of-schools-having-a-religious-character-independent-schools-england-order-2025/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1046",
  "legislation_title": "The Designation of Schools Having a Religious Character (Independent Schools) (England) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/designation-of-schools-having-a-religious-character-independent-schools-england-order-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been published in substitution of S.I. 2025/983 which had not been printed in error and has since been removed from legislation.gov.uk.\nEDUCATION, ENGLAND\nMade 29th August 2025\nComing into force 30th August 2025\nThe Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 69(3) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, as applied in relation to independent schools by section 124B of that Act.\nThe Secretary of State has followed the procedure specified in the Religious Character of Schools (Designation Procedure) (Independent Schools) (England) Regulations 2003.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 31. Section 69(3) has been amended by paragraph 35(5) of Schedule 2 to the Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 124B was inserted by S.I. 2003/2037 and has been amended by S.I. 2012/976 and paragraph 37(3) of Schedule 2 to the Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/2314, amended by S.I. 2004/2262."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1046/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:11:16.913646+00:00"
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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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