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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-disability-statements-for-local-education-authorities-england-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1625",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Disability Statements for Local Education Authorities) (England) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-disability-statements-for-local-education-authorities-england-regulations-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 528 of the Education Act 1996 provides that every local education authority must publish disability statements at prescribed intervals. A disability statement is a statement containing information of a prescribed description about the provision of facilities for further education made by the local education authority in respect of disabled persons.\nThe regulations (which apply in relation to local education authorities in England) prescribe the information which must be contained in a disability statement (regulation 2) and the intervals at which such statements should be published (regulation 3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1625/note",
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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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