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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-lower-primary-class-sizes-scotland-regulations-1999/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1080",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Lower Primary Class Sizes) (Scotland) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-lower-primary-class-sizes-scotland-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Limit on lower primary class sizes",
  "text": "(1) No lower primary class at a school shall contain more than 30 pupils while an ordinary teaching session is conducted by a single qualified teacher.\n(2) Where an ordinary teaching session in the case of any such class is conducted by more than one qualified teacher, paragraph (1) shall be taken to prohibit the class from containing more than 30 pupils for every one of those teachers.\n(3) Where a lower primary class at a school contains any excepted pupil (as defined by regulation 4), paragraph (1) or (2) shall apply as if he were not included in the class.\n(4) Any limit imposed by this regulation shall apply–\n(a) in relation to a Primary 1 class, from 1st August 1999;\n(b) in relation to a Primary 2 class, from 1st August 2000; and\n(c) in relation to a Primary 3 class, from 1st August 2001.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2010/326",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Lower Primary Class Sizes) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "ssi/2010/326",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Lower Primary Class Sizes) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1080/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:56.749124+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."
}