{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-free-school-lunches-in-maintained-nursery-schools-universal-credit-england-order-2026/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/706",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Free School Lunches in Maintained Nursery Schools) (Universal Credit) (England) Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-free-school-lunches-in-maintained-nursery-schools-universal-credit-england-order-2026",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Persons to be treated as within section 512ZB(4A) of the 1996 Act",
  "text": "A registered pupil at a maintained nursery school in England is to be treated as a person within section 512ZB(4A) of the 1996 Act (provision of free school lunches and milk) if—\n(a) their parent is in receipt of universal credit, and\n(b) they are not within section 512ZB(4) of the 1996 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 579 of the Education Act 1996 defines “maintained nursery school” by reference to the definition in section 22(9) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Relevant amendments to section 512ZB(4) were made by paragraph 16(3) of Schedule 3 to the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5), section 26(1) of the Life Chances Act 2010 (c. 9) (which was previously referred to as the Child Poverty Act 2010) and paragraph 39 of Schedule 2 and Part 1 of Schedule 14 to the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5). Section 512ZB(4) is prospectively amended by Part 1 of Schedule 7 to the Welfare Reform Act 2009 (c. 24) from a day to be appointed."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/706/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:59:05.855248+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}