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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1944-repealed-1111996/section-81",
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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  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1944 (repealed 1.11.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1944-repealed-1111996",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/81",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "81",
  "heading": "Power of local education authorities to give assistance by means of scholarships and otherwise.",
  "text": "Regulations shall be made by the Secretary of State for Education and Science empowering local education authorities, for the purpose of enabling persons to take advantage without hardship to themselves or their parents of any educational facilities available to them—\n(a) to defray such expenses of children attending county schools, voluntary schools, grant-maintained schools, or special schools, as may be necessary to enable them to take part in any school activities:\n(b) to pay the whole or any part of the fees and expenses payable in respect of children attending schools at which fees are payable:\n(c) to grant scholarships, exhibitions, bursaries, and other allowances in respect of persons over compulsory school age . . .\n(d) to grant allowances in respect of any child in respect of whom any scholarship exhibition bursary or other allowance has been granted by a former authority before the date of the commencement of Part II of this Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1964/490, art. 3(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 81 substituted (1.4.1993) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 93(1), Sch. 8 para. 11(a); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words inserted by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 231(7), 235(6), 237(1), Sch. 12 para. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 81(c) substituted (1.4.1993) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 93(1), Sch. 8, Pt. I para. 11(b)(i); S.I. 1992/831, art.2, Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 81(c) omitted (1.4.1993) by virtue of Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 93(1), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 11(b)(ii); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "S. 81(c) repealed in relation to courses to which Education Act 1962 (c. 2), ss. 1 and 2(1) apply and in relation to training of teachers by Education Act 1962 (c. 12), s. 4(4)-(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/7-8/31/section/81",
    "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."
}