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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2011-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2012/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/84",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Act 2011 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2011-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2012",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force on 1st February 2012",
  "text": "The following provisions of EA 2011 come into force on 1st February 2012:\nsections 18 to 20;\nsection 22;\nsection 28(5);\nsection 29(1), (2) and (8) for the purposes only of making regulations under section 46 of the Education Act 1997;\nsection 32;\nsection 34 and Schedule 10;\nsections 35 and 36;\nin Schedule 11, paragraphs 3 to 11, and paragraph 2 so far as it relates to a new school that is not a pupil referral unit or a maintained nursery school, and section 37 and paragraph 1 to the extent that they relate to those paragraphs;\nsection 40(4);\nsection 42(8);\nsection 43;\nsection 46;\nsection 52;\nsection 53 for the purposes only of applying for and making Academy orders in respect of alternative provision Academies under sections 3 and 4 of the Academies Act 2010;\nsections 55 and 56;\nsections 59 and 60;\nsection 62;\nsection 63 and Schedule 14;\nsection 64;\nsection 65 and Schedule 15;\nsection 74.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c.44"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2010 c.32"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/84/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:44:49.983087+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."
}