{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-temporary-exceptions-for-individual-pupils-regulations-1989/regulation-13",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1181",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (National Curriculum) (Temporary Exceptions for Individual Pupils) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-temporary-exceptions-for-individual-pupils-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Parental requests",
  "text": "(1) The head teacher shall, within two weeks of receiving any such request as is referred to in regulation 12 give, vary or revoke the direction as the case may be or give notice of his decision to refuse to do so in the manner set out in paragraph (2).\n(2) Where the head teacher’s decision is to refuse to give, vary or revoke the direction, as the case may be, he shall give his reasons therefor, and details of the right of appeal provided by regulation 14, in writing to –\n(a) the parent who has made the request;\n(b) the governing body; and\n(c) in the case of a school other than a grant-maintained school, the local education authority.\n(3) Regulation 6(3) shall apply to the reasons and details referred to in paragraph (2) as it does to a direction.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev.in pt.",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/2267",
      "affecting_title": "Education (Transition to New Framework) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/2267",
      "affecting_title": "Education (Transition to New Framework) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1181/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:40:53.214264+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."
}