{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1981-repealed-1111996/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1981-repealed-1111996/section-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/60",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1981 (repealed 1.11.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1981-repealed-1111996",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Special schools and approved independent schools.",
  "text": "(1) In section 9 of the principal Act (county schools, voluntary schools, nursery schools and special schools) for subsection (5) there is substituted the following subsection—\n“(5) Schools which are specially organised to make special educational provision for pupils with special educational needs and which are for the time being approved by the Secretary of State as special schools shall be known as special schools.”.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 11(2)(3) repealed (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 35, ss. 303, 307(1)(3), Sch. 19 para. 82, Sch. 21 Pt.I; S.I. 1994/507, art. 3, Sch. 2,Appendix."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 11(1), 17 and 21(4) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/60/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:13:43.562912+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."
}