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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/615",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Areas to which Pupils and Students Belong) Regulations 1996",
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  "heading": "General principle",
  "text": "Subject to regulations 4 to 10 below, a person shall be treated as belonging to the area of the education authority in which he is ordinarily resident or, where he has no ordinary residence, the area of the authority in which he is for the time being resident.",
  "extent": "E+W",
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      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 1.4.1996, see reg. 1"
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      "affecting_title": "The Education (Areas to which Pupils and Students Belong) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2009"
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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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