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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002-commencement-no6-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2003/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1667",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Act 2002 (Commencement No.6 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2003",
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  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force on 1st September 2003",
  "text": "The following provisions of the 2002 Act shall come into force except in relation to Wales on 1st September 2003:\nsection 1 to the extent that it is not already in force;\nsections 19, 20 and 21 to the extent that they are not already in force;\nsection 22;\nsection 24 to the extent that it is not already in force;\nsection 29;\nsection 32;\nsection 33 to the extent that it is not already in force;\nsections 35 and 36 to the extent that they are not already in force;\nsection 39(1) to the extent that it is not already in force;\nsection 40 to the extent that it is not already in force;\nsection 44(7);\nsection 52(11);\nsection 146 to the extent that it repeals section 218(1)(d) of the Education Reform Act 1988;\nPart 10, save for section 158(3);\nsection 176;\nsections 181 to 185;\nsection 187 to the extent that it is not already in force;\nsection 188 to the extent that it relates to the paragraphs of Schedule 16 specified below;\nsection 215 to the extent that it relates to the provisions of Schedules 21 and 22 specified below;\nSchedule 3 to the extent that it is not already in force;\nSchedule 15 to the extent that it is not already in force;\nin Schedule 16, paragraphs 1, and 3 to 6;\nin Schedule 21 –\nparagraph 12,\nparagraph 23,\nparagraph 25,\nparagraph 26,\nparagraph 27(3),\nparagraphs 28 to 30,\nparagraph 35,\nparagraphs 36 to 38,\nparagraph 39 to the extent that it is not already in force,\nparagraphs 40 to 44,\nparagraph 46 to the extent that it is not already in force,\nparagraph 47 to the extent that it is not already in force,\nparagraph 52,paragraph 57 to the extent that it is not already in force,\nparagraph 58,paragraph 59 to the extent that it is not already in force,\nparagraphs 60 to 62,paragraph 63 to the extent that it is not already in force,\nparagraph 64,\nparagraph 65,\nparagraph 67,\nparagraph 90,\nparagraphs 92 to 94,\nparagraph 99 to the extent that it is not already in force,\nparagraphs 101 to 103,\nin paragraph 110, sub-paragraph (2), and in sub-paragraph (3), paragraph (b) for the purpose of omitting paragraphs (f), (h) and (k) of subsection (6) of section 127 of the 1998 Act, and paragraph (c) for the purpose of inserting paragraphs (p) and (q) into that subsection,\nparagraph 112 to the extent that it is not already in force,\nparagraph 113 to the extent that it is not already in force, and\nparagraph 127;\nin Schedule 22, the repeal of –\nin the Education Reform Act 1988, section 218(1)(d),\nin the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993, in Schedule 5 the reference to “Chairman of an Independent Schools Tribunal”, and in Schedule 7 paragraph 5(5)(xxvii),\nin the Education Act 1994, section 4(4),\nin the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, in Schedule 4A, in the Table in paragraph 1, paragraph 3,\nin the Education Act 1996 –\nsection 29(6),\nin section 316A(11)(b) the words “a maintained nursery school or”,\nin section 317 subsection (3)(b) and the word “or” preceding it,\nin section 329A(13)(a), the words “a maintained nursery school or”,\nsections 464 to 478,\nsection 537(9) and (10),\nin section 568, in subsection (2) the words “sections 468, 471(1) and 474”,\nin section 580, the entries relating to register registration, registered school and Registrar of Independent Schools,\nSchedule 34,\nin the Education Act 1997, paragraph 14 of Schedule 7,\nin the School Inspections Act 1996 –\nin section 10, subsection (3)(e) and in subsection (4B), paragraph (f) and the preceding “or”,\nin section 11(5), in paragraph (a), “(e)” and paragraph (b),\nin section 15(4)(c) the words “except where the school is a maintained nursery school”,\nin section 20(3), paragraph (b) and the preceding “or”,\nin section 21(3)(b) the words “except in the case of a maintained nursery school”, and in subsection (4), paragraph (b) and the preceding “or”,\nin Schedule 3, in the definition of “appropriate authority” in paragraph 1, paragraph (b), and in paragraph (c) “(e)”,\nin the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998, section 3 (3)(c),\nin the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 –\nsection 36 to the extent that it is not already repealed,\nsections 37 to 39,section 41,section 43,\nsections 54 to 56,\nsection 127 (6)(f),(h) and (k),\nSchedules 9, 11, 12, 16 and 17,\nin Schedule 30, paragraph 56, in paragraph 74 sub- paragraphs (2) and (3) and in sub-paragraph (4) paragraph (b) and the word “and” preceding it,\nin the Employment Relations Act 1999, section 40,\nin the Care Standards Act 2000, section 100 and paragraph 24 of Schedule 4.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "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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