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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/996",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Grant-maintained and Grant-maintained Special Schools) (Finance) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-and-grant-maintained-special-schools-finance-regulations-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 20th March 1997\nLaid before Parliament 21st March 1997\nComing into force 1st April 1997\nIn exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 244(2), 245, 246(1) and (2), 247(2) and (6), 257 and 569(4) and (5) of, and paragraph 14 of Schedule 28 to, the Education Act 1996 the Secretary of State for Education and Employment hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 56. Sections 244 to 258 apply to grant-maintained special schools and their governing bodies by virtue of regulation 23 of the Education (Grant-maintained Special Schools) Regulations 1994, S.I. 1994/653, as substituted by regulation 11 of the Education (Grant-maintained Special Schools) (Amendment) Regulations 1994, S.I. 1994/1231 and read with paragraph 1(4) of Schedule 39 to the 1996 Act. For the meaning of “regulations” see section 579(1) of the 1996 Act."
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/996/introduction",
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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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