{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-middle-school-england-regulations-2002/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-middle-school-england-regulations-2002/regulation-6.json",
  "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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Classification of middle schools for Education Act purposes",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where:\n(a) the school, to which the middle school proposals relate, has a primary age range of pupils which is equal to that of its secondary age range of pupils; and\n(b) regulation 3(1)(b) does not apply.\n(2) In such a case, the Secretary of State shall determine whether the middle school to which the proposals relate shall be deemed for Education Act purposes to be a primary or secondary school.\n(3) Before making such a determination, the Secretary of State shall:\n(a) allow the local education authority, governing body or promoters an opportunity to make representations; and\n(b) take into consideration any representations made by them.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1556",
      "affecting_title": "The School Organisation and Governance (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2009"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1983/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:51:32.196179+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."
}