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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-inspections-act-2006/schedule-12/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/40",
  "legislation_title": "Education and Inspections Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-inspections-act-2006",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Chief Inspector may designate an HMI to perform his functions during any period when he is absent or unable to act.\n(2) If (at a time when no designation is in force under sub-paragraph (1)) it appears to the chairman of the Office that the Chief Inspector is, as a result of any incapacity—\n(a) unable to act, and\n(b) unable to make a designation under that sub-paragraph,\nthe chairman may designate an HMI to perform the Chief Inspector's functions so long as he remains in office and is unable to act.\n(3) For the purposes of this paragraph the Chief Inspector's functions include his functions as a member of the Office.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 3 in force at 1.4.2007 by S.I. 2007/935, art. 5(gg)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/40/schedule/12/paragraph/3",
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  },
  "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."
}