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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-and-inspections-act-2006/section-122J",
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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": "section/122J",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "122J",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Chapter 2A",
  "text": "(1) In this Chapter—\n“Academy” means an educational institution to which Academy arrangements relate;\n“Academy arrangements” has the meaning given by section 1 of the Academies Act 2010;\n“Academy proprietor” is a person who, in pursuance of Academy arrangements, is the proprietor of an Academy;\n“Academy school” has the meaning given by section 1A of the Academies Act 2010;\n“alternative provision Academy” has the meaning given by section 1C of that Act;\n“denominational education”, in relation to an Academy, means religious education which—\n(a)is provided in accordance with—\n(i)any provisions of the trust deed affecting the Academy which relate to the teaching and learning of religious education, or\n(ii)the tenets of the religion or religious denomination in relation to which the Academy is designated, and\n(b)is not required by Academy arrangements to be given in accordance with the requirements for agreed syllabuses in section 375(3) of the Education Act 1996;\n“parent” has the meaning given by section 576 of that Act;\n“registered”, in relation to the parents of pupils at an Academy school or alternative provision Academy, means shown in the register kept under section 434 of that Act;\n“registered pupil”, in relation to an Academy school or alternative provision Academy, means a person registered as a pupil in that register;\n“relevant religious body”, in relation to an Academy, means—\n(a)in the case of a Church of England Academy or a Roman Catholic Church Academy, the appropriate diocesan authority, and\n(b)in any other case, such body or person as is specified in the Academy arrangements relating to the Academy as representing the religion or religious denomination in relation to which the Academy is designated,\nand in the case of an Academy designated in relation to more than one religion or religious denomination, references to “the relevant religious body” are to be read as references to all of the relevant religious bodies applicable to the Academy;\n“trust deed”, in relation to an Academy, includes any instrument (other than the articles or memorandum of association) regulating the constitution of the Academy proprietor or the maintenance, management or conduct of the Academy.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) “Church of England Academy” means an Academy in the Province of Canterbury or York in relation to which the religion or religious denomination specified in the order designating the Academy as having a religious character is “Church of England” and “appropriate diocesan authority”, in relation to such an Academy, means the Diocesan Board of Education for the diocese of the Church of England in which the school is situated, and\n(b) “Roman Catholic Church Academy” means an Academy in relation to which the religion or religious denomination specified in the order designating the Academy as having a religious character is “Roman Catholic” and “appropriate diocesan authority”, in relation to such an Academy, means the bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese in which the Academy is situated.\n(3) For the purposes of this Chapter, an Academy has been “designated as having a religious character” if it has been so designated by an order under—\n(a) section 69 (3) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 by virtue of section 124B(2) of that Act, or\n(b) section 8A (1) of the Academies Act 2010 (16 to 19 academies having religious character),\nand references to the order designating the Academy as having a religious character should be read accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 8 Ch. 2A inserted (29.4.2026 for specified purposes) by Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (c. 21), ss. 57(2), 78(1)(a)(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/40/section/122J",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:59.347958+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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