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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-codes-of-practice-education-appointed-day-order-2002/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-codes-of-practice-education-appointed-day-order-2002/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2216",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Discrimination Codes of Practice (Education) (Appointed Day) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-codes-of-practice-education-appointed-day-order-2002",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order appoints 1st September 2002 as the day on which the Disability Rights Commission Codes of Practice for Schools and for providers of Post-16 education and related services (both of which were issued on 8th July 2002) come into effect.\nThe Code of Practice for Schools relates to the provisions on disability discrimination in schools inserted at Chapter 1 of Part IV of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 by the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001.\nThe Code of Practice for providers of Post-16 education and related services relates to the provisions on disability discrimination in further and higher education inserted at Chapter 2 of Part IV of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 by the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001.\nCopies of the Codes may be obtained from the Disability Rights Commission, DRC Helpline, FREEPOST, MID 02164, Stratford upon Avon, CV37 9BR, telephone 08457 622 633, fax 08457 622 644, email enquiry@drc-gb.org, website www.drc-gb.org. The Codes are also available in alternative formats.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2216/note",
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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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