{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1944-repealed-1111996/section-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1944-repealed-1111996/section-52.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/7-8/31",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1944 (repealed 1.11.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1944-repealed-1111996",
  "path": "section/52",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "†Recovery of cost of boarding accommodation and of clothing.",
  "text": "(1) Where a local education authority have, under the powers conferred by the foregoing provisions of this Act, provided a pupil with board and lodging otherwise than at a boarding school . . . . . . the authority shall require the parent to pay to the authority in respect thereof such sums, if any, as in the opinion of the authority he is able without financial hardship to pay:\nProvided that—\n(a) where the board and lodging provided for the pupil were so provided under arrangements made by the local education authority on the ground that in their opinion education suitable to his age ability and aptitude or special educational needs could not otherwise be provided . . . no sum shall be recoverable in respect thereof under this section . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) The sums recoverable under this section shall not exceed the cost to the local education authority of providing the board and lodging . . .\n(3) Any sums payable by virtue of this section may be recovered summarily as a civil debt.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41), ss. 231(7), 235(6), 237(2), Sch. 13 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948 (c. 40), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words inserted by Education Act 1981 (c. 60, SIF 41:1), s. 21, Sch. 3 para. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 52(1) repealed (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 35, s. 307(1)(3), Sch. 19 para. 13, Sch. 21 Pt. II; S.I. 1994/507, art. 4(1), Sch. 2Appendix."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 52 excluded (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 35, ss. 12(6), 298(8), Sch. 2 Pt.III paras. 4, 13(1)(a) (with Sch. 18 para. 12); S.I. 1994/507, art. 4(1), Sch.2."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 52(1) excluded (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 35, ss. 12(6), 298(8), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 1(2) (with Sch. 18 para. 12); S.I. 1994/507, art. 4(1), Sch.2."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Unreliable marginal note."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/7-8/31/section/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:26:41.167119+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."
}