{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2005/section-44C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2005/section-44C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/18",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2005",
  "path": "section/44C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44C",
  "heading": "Report after area inspection on schools with sixth forms requiring significant improvement",
  "text": "(1) This section applies if in the course of an area inspection under section 63 of the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 the Chief Inspector forms the opinion that a school requires significant improvement in relation to its sixth form.\n(2) The Chief Inspector must make a report about the school stating that opinion.\n(3) The report is to be treated for the purposes of this Part as if it were a report of an inspection of the school under section 28.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 44A-44F and cross-heading inserted (1.10.2013) by School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1), ss. 77, 100(4); S.I. 2013/1800, art. 3(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 44C(1) substituted (1.4.2026) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 18(5) (with s. 19); W.S.I. 2026/62, art. 2(ww)(xxxiv)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/18/section/44C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:15:45.290138+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."
}