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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-inspections-act-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-16",
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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/2/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Nothing in paragraph 8(1) to (4) prevents the proposers by whom any proposals have been made from withdrawing those proposals by notice in writing—\n(a) to the relevant authority, and\n(b) in a case where the proposals have been referred to the Secretary of State or the adjudicator, also to that person,\nat any time before the proposals are determined under paragraph 8 by the authority or by the Secretary of State or the adjudicator, as the case may be.\n(2) Nothing in paragraph 8(1) to (4) prevents the relevant authority from withdrawing any proposals made by the authority themselves by notice in writing to the Secretary of State or the adjudicator at any time before the proposals are determined under paragraph 8 by that person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 16(1)(b) inserted (1.9.2026) by Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (c. 21), s. 78(5), Sch. 4 para. 19(2)(a) (with s. 69); S.I. 2026/803, reg. 5(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 16(1)(b) substituted (1.9.2026) by Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (c. 21), s. 78(5), Sch. 4 para. 19(2)(b) (with s. 69); S.I. 2026/803, reg. 5(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 16(1) substituted (1.9.2026) by Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (c. 21), s. 78(5), Sch. 4 para. 19(3) (with s. 69); S.I. 2026/803, reg. 5(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 16(2) inserted (1.9.2026) by Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (c. 21), s. 78(5), Sch. 4 para. 19(4)(a) (with s. 69); S.I. 2026/803, reg. 5(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 16(2) substituted (1.9.2026) by Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (c. 21), s. 78(5), Sch. 4 para. 19(4)(b) (with s. 69); S.I. 2026/803, reg. 5(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 modified (E.) (25.5.2007) by The School Organisation (Establishment and Discontinuance of Schools) (England) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1288), reg. 1(1), Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 16 in force at 25.5.2007 by S.I. 2007/935, art. 7(n)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/40/schedule/2/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:59.347958+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."
}