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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996-infant-class-sizes-modification-regulations-1998/schedule/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1948",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Act 1996 (Infant Class Sizes) (Modification) Regulations 1998",
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  "path": "schedule/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In section 439 of the 1996 Act, after subsection (4) there shall be inserted the following new subsection\n“(4A) A local education authority shall not specify a school in a notice under section 438(2) if the admission of the child concerned would result in prejudice to the provision of efficient education or the efficient use of resources by reason of any qualifying measures (as defined in section 411(10)).”.\n(2) This paragraph applies at any relevant time falling before the commencement of paragraph 115(4) of Schedule 30 to the 1998 Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (E.) (30.11.2003) by Education (Revocation of Spent Provisions) (England) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2694), reg. 1(2), Sch. Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 8 in force at 1.9.1998, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1948/schedule/paragraph/8",
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  "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."
}