{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1997/section-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1997/section-54.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/44",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1997",
  "path": "section/54",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Orders and regulations.",
  "text": "(1) Any power of the Secretary of State to make orders or regulations under this Act ... shall be exercised by statutory instrument.\n(2) A statutory instrument containing any order or regulations under this Act, except an order under section ... 58, shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.\n(2A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Any order or regulations under this Act may make different provision for different cases, circumstances or areas and may contain such incidental, supplemental, saving or transitional provisions as the Secretary of State thinks fit.\n(4) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (3), any order or regulations under this Act may make in relation to Wales provision different from that made in relation to England.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 54(1) repealed (1.4.2010) by Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22), s. 269(4), Sch. 12 para. 22, Sch. 16 Pt. 4; S.I. 2010/1151, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 54(2) omitted (21.9.2015) by virtue of Qualifications Wales Act 2015 (anaw 5), s. 60(2), Sch. 4 para. 2(4)(a); S.I. 2015/1687, art. 2 (with arts. 3-12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 54(2A) omitted (21.9.2015) by virtue of Qualifications Wales Act 2015 (anaw 5), s. 60(2), Sch. 4 para. 2(4)(b); S.I. 2015/1687, art. 2 (with arts. 3-12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 54(2A) inserted (1.5.2012) by Education Act 2011 (c. 21), ss. 24(7)(b), 82(3); S.I. 2012/924, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 54(3) power partly exercised (3.4.1997): 4.4.1997 appointed for specified provisions by S.I. 1997/1153s. 54(3) power partly exercised (5.6.1997): different dates appointed for specified provisions by S.I. 1997/1468 (with savings and transitional provisions)S. 54(3) power partly exercised (24.2.1998): different dates appointed for specified provisions by S.I. 1998/386 (with savings and transitional provisions)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/44/section/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:24:56.828684+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}