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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grammar-school-designation-order-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2219",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Grammar School Designation) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grammar-school-designation-order-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 8th September 1998\nComing into force 1st October 1998\nWhereas the Secretary of State for Education and Employment is satisfied that the schools specified in the Schedule to this Order had selective admission arrangements at the beginning of the 1997–98 school year;\nNow, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 104(1) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 the Secretary of State for Education and Employment hereby makes the following Order:–",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 31."
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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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