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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2011-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2012/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1087",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Act 2011 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2011-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2012",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force on 1st September 2012",
  "text": "The following provisions of EA 2011 come into force on 1st September 2012—\nsection 1(1) and section 1(2) for the purposes only of making regulations under section 7 of the Childcare Act 2006 (as substituted by section 1(2)), section 1(3) and section 1(1) to the extent that it relates to section 1(3), and section 1(4);\nsection 4 and Schedule 1;\nsection 28 to the extent that it is not already in force;\nsection 29 to the extent that it is not already in force;\nsection 38;\nsection 39;\nsection 50 but not in respect of any funding period before 1 April 2013;\nsection 69 and Schedule 18;\nsection 70.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at made date"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "For the meaning of “funding period” see section 45 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c.31) which was amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 16 to the Education Act 2005 (c. 18)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1087/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:33:45.219652+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."
}