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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1981-repealed-1111996/section-17",
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  "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  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1981 (repealed 1.11.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1981-repealed-1111996",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/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Duty of parents",
  "text": "In section 36 of the principal Act (duty of parents to secure the education of their children) after the word “ aptitude” there are inserted the words “ and to any special educational needs he may have. ”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "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      "text": "The text of ss. 11(1), 17 and 21(4) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/60/section/17",
    "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."
}