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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/designation-of-schools-having-a-religious-character-wales-order-2007/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2007/972",
  "legislation_title": "The Designation of Schools Having a Religious Character (Wales) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/designation-of-schools-having-a-religious-character-wales-order-2007",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "EDUCATION, WALES\nMade 21 March 2007\nComing into force 1 May 2007\nThe National Assembly for Wales makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 69(3) and (4) and 138(7) and (8) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, and now vested in the National Assembly for Wales, having 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 section 215(1) of, and paragraph 104 of Schedule 21 to the Education Act 2002 (c. 32). See section 142(1) for the meaning of “prescribed” and “regulations”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See Article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/2535."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2007/972/introduction",
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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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