{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1968-repealed-1111996/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1968-repealed-1111996/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/17",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1968 (repealed 1.11.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1968-repealed-1111996",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Schools with special age limits.",
  "text": "Section 1 of the Education Act 1964 (which enables new county or voluntary schools to be established to provide both primary and secondary education) shall apply where it is proposed that an existing school maintained or to be maintained by a local education authority should provide both primary and secondary education, and accordingly in subsection (1) of that section—\n(a) for the words from “Where a local education authority intend to establish a new county school” to “for that purpose” there shall be substituted the words “Where proposals with respect to a school maintained or to be maintained by a local education authority are submitted” ; and\n(b) for the word “established” in paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the words “a school”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1964 c. 82."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 2 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/17/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:54:32.711201+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."
}