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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financing-of-maintained-schools-regulations-1998/schedule-1/paragraph-18",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/1998/0110799437",
  "legislation_title": "The Financing of Maintained Schools Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financing-of-maintained-schools-regulations-1998",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Access to education",
  "text": "(1) Expenditure on milk, meals and other refreshment pursuant to section 512 or 513 of the 1996 Act subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) below.\n(2) A local education authority may not deduct expenditure referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above in relation to schools which are, or were immediately before 1st April 1999, grant-maintained or grant-maintained special schools.\n(3) A local education authority may only deduct expenditure in the financial year beginning on 1st April 1999 on meals and other refreshment referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above in relation to any other secondary school maintained by the authority where it relates to a service provided to the school under—\n(a) a contract between the authority and a third party for the carrying out of the service in question; or\n(b) an arrangement whereby the authority’s direct labour organisation or a similar organisation carries out that service,\nin force in the financial year beginning on 1st April 1999.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/1998/0110799437/schedule/1/paragraph/18",
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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."
}