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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2952",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Act 2002 (Commencement No. 3 and Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2002",
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  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996;\n“the 1998 Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;\n“maintained school” has the meaning given to it by section 84(6) of the 1998 Act;\n“maintained nursery school” has the meaning given to it by section 97 of the 2002 Act;\n“pupil referral unit” has the meaning given to it by section 19(2) of the 1996 Act;\n“school year”, in the context of references to the admission of a child to a maintained school or a maintained nursery school in any particular year, means the school year in which he would first take up a place in consequence of a decision to admit him.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 56"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1998 c. 31."
    }
  ],
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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."
}