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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-middle-school-england-regulations-2002/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1983",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Middle School) (England) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-middle-school-england-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“Education Act purposes” means the purposes of the Education Act 1996 and the other enactments relating to education;\n“governing body” includes a temporary governing body constituted in accordance with section 44 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;\n“middle school” means a school in respect of which middle school proposals are implemented;\n“middle school proposals” means such proposals as are referred to in section 28(1) and section 28(2) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 which are proposals, which—\n(a) specify an age which is below the age of 10 years 6 months and an age which is above the age of 12 years, and\n(b) provide that the school to which the proposals relate is to be a school providing full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils whose ages are between the ages so specified.\n“primary age range” means the range of years during which a pupil is between the age of 11 years and the lower age specified in the middle school proposals.\n“promoters” has the same meaning as in section 28(2) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.\n“secondary age range” means the range of years during which a pupil is between the age of 11 years and the higher age specified in the middle school proposals.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 31."
    }
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      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1556",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1983/regulation/2",
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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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