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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1946-repealed-1111996/section-16",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/9-10/50",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1946 (repealed 1.11.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1946-repealed-1111996",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Interpretation, etc.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—\n“department” means such part, if any, of a school as is organised under a separate head teacher;\n“the principal Act” means the Education Act 1944; . . .\n“site”, in relation to any school, does not include playing fields, but, save as aforesaid, includes any site which is to form part of the school premises.\n(2) This Act shall be construed as one with the principal Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Definition inserted by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 231(7), 235(6), 237(1), Sch. 12 para. 60"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Definitions repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/9-10/50/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:24:56.874190+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."
}