{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/section-512B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/section-512B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/56",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996",
  "path": "section/512B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "512B",
  "heading": "Provision of school lunches: Academies",
  "text": "(1) Academy arrangements in relation to an Academy school or an alternative provision Academy must include provision imposing obligations on the proprietor that are equivalent to the school lunches obligations.\n(2) “The school lunches obligations” are the obligations imposed in relation to maintained schools and pupil referral units in England by—\n(a) section 512(3) (provision of school lunches on request), and\n(b) section 512ZB(1) (provision of free school lunches to eligible persons).\n(3) Academy arrangements in relation to an Academy (other than a 16 to 19 Academy) that are entered into before the date on which section 106(3) of the Children and Families Act 2014 comes into force are to be treated as if they included the provision required by subsection (1), to the extent that they do not otherwise include such provision.\n(4) Subsections (1) and (3) apply to an agreement under section 482 in relation to a city technology college or a city college for the technology of the arts as they apply to Academy arrangements in relation to an Academy school or an alternative provision Academy.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 512B inserted (1.9.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), ss. 106(3), 139(6); S.I. 2014/889, art. 7(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 512B(4) inserted (29.6.2026) by Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (c. 21), ss. 31(1), 78(2)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/56/section/512B",
    "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."
}