{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/section-398",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/section-398.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/56",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996",
  "path": "section/398",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "398",
  "heading": "No requirement of attendance at Sunday school etc.",
  "text": "(1) It shall not be required, as a condition of—\n(a) a pupil attending a maintained school, or\n(b) a person attending such a school to receive further education or any training for members of the school workforce ,\nthat he must attend or abstain from attending a Sunday school or a place of religious worship.\n(2) In subsection (1)(b), the reference to training for members of the school workforce is to be read in accordance with sections 96(1) and 100 of the Education Act 2005.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 398(1): s. 398 renumbered as s. 398(1) (1.9.2005) by Education Act 2005 (c. 18), s. 125(3)(a), Sch. 14 para. 16(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 398(b) substituted (1.9.2005) by Education Act 2005 (c. 18), s. 125(3)(a), Sch. 14 para. 16(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 398(2) inserted (1.9.2005) by Education Act 2005 (c. 18), s. 125(3)(a), Sch. 14 para. 16(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 398(2) substituted (1.4.2012) by Education Act 2011 (c. 21), s. 82(3), Sch. 5 para. 11; S.I. 2012/924, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/56/section/398",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:40.627017+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."
}