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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002-commencement-no-3-and-savings-and-transitional-provisions-order-2002/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002-commencement-no-3-and-savings-and-transitional-provisions-order-2002/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2952",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Act 2002 (Commencement No. 3 and Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002-commencement-no-3-and-savings-and-transitional-provisions-order-2002",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Nursery education, special schools and children with statements",
  "text": "Despite the coming into force of paragraph 12 of Schedule 4 to the 2002 Act, in relation to the amendment of section 98 of the 1998 Act,\n(a) the amendment made by sub-paragraph (2) shall not have effect in relation to the admission of a child to a maintained school for nursery education for any school year earlier than the 2004-05 school year;\n(b) the amendments made by sub-paragraphs (3), (4) and (5) shall not have effect in relation to the admission of a child to–\n(i) a maintained school for nursery education, or (as the case may be)\n(ii) a maintained nursery school,\nfor any school year earlier than the 2003-04 school year; and\n(c) the amendment made by sub-paragraph (6) shall not have effect in relation to the admission to a maintained school of a child for whom a statement is maintained under section 324 of the 1996 Act for any school year earlier than the 2004-05 school year.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2952/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:39:07.643202+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."
}