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  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/61",
  "legislation_title": "Education (No. 2) Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-no-2-act-1986",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the law relating to education.\n[7th November 1986]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act amended by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 163(1), 231(7), 235(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act modified by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 231(7), 235(6), 236(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) (1.1.1994) by 1993 c. 35, ss. 238, 239, Sch. 13 para.7(2)(a); S.I. 1993/3106, art. 4, Sch.1Act explained (21.9.1994) by 1994 c. 30, s. 19(4); S.I. 1994/2204, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act: certain functions transferred (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch.1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act applied (1.6.2001) by S.I. 2001/1507, reg. 2, Sch. 2 art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act applied (1.4.2005) by Central Sussex College (Government) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/397), Sch. 2 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Act modified (7.4.2005) by Education Act 2005 (c. 18), s. 96(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Act Education Acts modified (temp.) (1.4.2007) by Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40), s. 188(3), Sch. 6 para. 3(3); S.I. 2007/935, art. 5(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act partly in force at Royal Assent, see s.66; Act wholly in force at 1.9.1987"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "Except for certain provisions this Act extends only to England and Wales see s. 67(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E2",
      "text": "The extent provision of this Act was amended (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 56, ss. 582(1), 583(2), Sch. 37 Pt. I para. 66 (with ss. 561, 562, Sch. 39); see s. 67"
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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