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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-baseline-assessment-england-regulations-1998/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1551",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Baseline Assessment) (England) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-baseline-assessment-england-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Circumstances in which requirement to assess may not apply",
  "text": "A head teacher may direct that the requirement in section 17(1) of the Act (all pupils who are at the relevant stage to be assessed) is not to apply to a pupil if, at the time of the direction,—\n(a) a statement of the child’s special educational needs is being maintained by a local education authority in respect of the pupil pursuant to section 324 of the 1996 Act; and\n(b) in the opinion of the head teacher, a baseline assessment in relation to the pupil would not add materially to the information available to the school as a result of the assessment of his educational needs made by the authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1551/regulation/5",
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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."
}