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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002-commencement-no4-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2003/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/124",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Act 2002 (Commencement No.4 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002-commencement-no4-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2003",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force on 1th April 2003",
  "text": "The following provisions of the 2002 Act shall come into force except in relation to Wales on 1th April 2003:\nsection 18 except for the repeal of section 486 of the 1996 Act made by paragraph (g) of subsection (1);\nin section 19(8) the words “regulations under this section may include provision with respect to the governing bodies of federations”;\nin section 20(4) the words “regulations under subsection (2) may include provision with respect to instruments of government for federations”;\nsection 24(1) for the purpose of making regulations only;\nsection 24(2) to (6);\nsection 25;\nsection 34;\nsection 35(4) and (5);\nsection 36(4) and (5);\nin section 39(1) the definition of “federation” and “federated school”;\nsection 44(1) to (6);\nsection 45;\nsection 72;\nsection 74 (2) and (3);\nsection 75 to the extent that it relates to the paragraphs of Schedule 10 specified below;\nsection 153;\nsections 207 and 208;\nSchedule 9;\nin Schedule 10, paragraphs 1, 6, and 11 to 15;\nsection 215 to the extent that it relates to the provisions of Schedules 21 and 22 specified below;\nin Schedule 21–\nparagraph 3 except for sub-paragraph (a),\nparagraph 7,\nparagraph 49,\nparagraph 53,\nparagraph 59 except for sub-paragraph (a),\nparagraph 85 to the extent that it is not already in force, except for sub-paragraph (c),\nparagraph 89,\nparagraphs 95 and 96,\nparagraph 98(1), (2)(a) and (3),\nparagraph 99(1) and (3)(b),\nparagraph 100 to the extent that it is not already in force,\nparagraph 106,\nparagraph 109,\nin paragraph 110, sub-paragraph (1), in sub-paragraph (3), paragraph (a), paragraph (b) for the purpose of omitting paragraph (e) of subsection (6) of section 127 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, and paragraph (c) for the purpose of inserting paragraph (m) into that subsection,\nparagraph 112 for the purpose of inserting the definition of “exclude”,\nparagraph 113 to the extent that it is not already in force except for paragraphs (b) and (e),\nparagraph 114,\nparagraph 115(1), (2), (3)(b) and (4),\nparagraph 118 to the extent that it is not already in force, and\nparagraph 126;\nin Schedule 22, the repeal of–\nthe Education Act 1967 (the whole Act, so far as unrepealed),\nin the Education Act 1986, section 1(1)(b) and the word “and” immediately preceding it, and sections 2 to 4,\nin the Education (No. 2) Act 1986, in section 50, in subsection (1), paragraph (b) and the word “and” immediately preceding it, and in subsection (3A), the words from “by the Secretary of State” to “teachers”,\nin the Education Reform Act 1988, sections 160, 210 and 211,\nin the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, in Schedule 8, paragraphs 46 and 47,the Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Act 1996 (the whole Act, so far as unrepealed),\nin the Education Act 1996–\nin section 318, in subsection (3A) paragraph (b) and the word “or” immediately preceding it,\nin section 484, in subsection (2) the words “England and” and subsection (6), sections 487 to 488,\nsections 490 to 492,\nin section 509A(5)(b), sub-paragraph (ii) and the word “or” immediately preceding it,\nin section 548(8), in paragraph (b), sub-paragraph (ii) and the word “or” preceding that sub-paragraph,\nin section 578, the entries relating to the Education Act 1967 and the Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Act 1996,\nin Schedule 37, paragraph 13, in paragraph 65(2), paragraph (b) and the word “and” immediately preceding it, and paragraph 131,\nin the Education Act 1997, in Schedule 7, paragraphs 8 and 36,\nin the School Standards and Framework Act 1998–\nsection 3,\nsection 7(10),\nin section 22(1), in paragraph (b) the words “under section 28 or 31” and in paragraph (c) the words “under section 28”,\nsection 44,\nin section 52(2) the word “and” at the end of paragraph (b),\nsection 115,\nsection 127(6)(e),\nin section 138, in subsection (5), paragraph (a)(ii) and (iii);\nin Schedule 6, the word “or” at the end of paragraph 4(3)(d) and the words “or (5)” at the end of paragraph 10(6),\nin Schedule 26, in paragraph 1, sub-paragraph (1)(c) and the word “or” preceding it,\nin Schedule 28, Part 2,\nin the Learning and Skills Act 2000–\nin Schedule 7, in paragraph 35(1), the word “or” at the end of paragraph (b),\nin Schedule 9 paragraphs 58 and 91.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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