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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-inspections-act-2006/schedule-3/paragraph-7",
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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/3/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 5 of EA 1996 (primary schools, secondary schools and middle schools) is amended as follows.\n(2) For subsection (3) substitute—\n“(3) In this Act “middle school” means a school which, in pursuance of proposals published under any of the enactments specified in subsection (3A), has been established as, or altered so as to become, a school for providing full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils who—\n(a) have attained a specified age below 10 years and six months, and\n(b) are under a specified age above 12 years.\n(3A) The enactments mentioned in subsection (3) are—\n(a) in relation to England—\n(i) section 28 or 28A of, or paragraph 5 of Schedule 7 to, the School Standards and Framework Act 1998,\n(ii) section 66 of, or paragraph 7 of Schedule 11 to, the Education Act 2005, and\n(iii) section 7, 10, 11 or 19 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006;\n(b) in relation to Wales, section 28 of, or paragraph 5 of Schedule 7 to, the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 7 in force at 25.5.2007 by S.I. 2007/935, art. 7(o)"
    }
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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."
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