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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/schedule-33A/paragraph-9",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/56",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1996",
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  "path": "schedule/33A/paragraph/9",
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  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Appeals shall be heard in private except when otherwise directed by the local education authority, but any member of the local education authority or of the Council on Tribunals may attend, as an observer, any meeting of an appeal committee at which an appeal is considered.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 33A inserted (1.9.1997) by 1997 c. 44, s. 12(2), Sch.2 (with s. 57(3)); S.I. 1997/1468, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 Pt.II"
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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."
}