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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1973/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1973/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/16",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1973",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "General provisions as to educational trusts.",
  "text": "(1) There shall cease to have effect—\n(a) section 2 of the Charities Act 1960 (by which, as originally enacted, the powers of the Charity Commissioners were made exercisable concurrently by the Minister of Education); and\n(b) the Endowed Schools Acts 1869 to 1948 (which made provision for the modernisation of educational trusts by schemes settled and approved in accordance with those Acts).\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In connection with the operation of this section there shall have effect the transitional and other consequential or supplementary provisions contained in Schedule 1 to this Act.\n(4) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 2 to this Act (which includes in Part I certain enactments already spent or otherwise no longer required apart from the foregoing provisions of this section) are hereby repealed to the extent specified in column 3 of the Schedule.\n(5) Subsection (1)(a) above and Part III of Schedule 2 to this Act shall not come into force until such date as may be appointed by order made by statutory instrument by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1(2) repealed (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 56, ss. 582(2), 583(2), Sch. 38 Pt.I (with ss. 1(4), 561, 562, Sch. 39)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1960 c. 58."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 1(4) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "1.2.1974 appointed under s. 1(5) by S.I. 1973/1661"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/16/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:47:48.733205+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."
}