{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1944-repealed-1111996/section-76",
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  "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  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1944 (repealed 1.11.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1944-repealed-1111996",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/76",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "76",
  "heading": "Pupils to be educated in accordance with the wishes of their parents.",
  "text": "In the exercise and performance of all powers and duties conferred and imposed on them by the Education Acts 1944 to 1996 the Secretary of State for Education and Sciencethe funding authoritiesand local education authorities shall have regard to the general principle that, so far as is compatible with the provision of efficient instruction and training and the avoidance of unreasonable public expenditure, pupils are to be educated in accordance with the wishes of their parents.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 76 substituted (1.10.1993) by 1993 c. 35, s. 307(1), Sch. 19 para. 20(a); S.I. 1993/1975, art. 9, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 76 substituted (1.9.1996) by 1996 c. 50, s. 10, Sch. 3 para.1; S.I. 1996/2022, art.2."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1964/490, art. 3(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 76 inserted (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 35, s. 307(1), Sch. 19 para. 20(b); S.I. 1994/507, art. 4(1), Sch. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 76 excluded (prosp.) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), ss. 30(1), 36(10), 108(2)(6), Sch. 3 Part III para. 13(2)(b)(ii), Sch. 14 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/7-8/31/section/76",
    "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."
}