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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2257",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Non-Maintained Special Schools) (England) Regulations 1999",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations–\n“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996;\n“maintained special school” means a community or foundation special school;\n“non-maintained special school” means a school which is not maintained by a local education authority and which has been approved as a special school under section 342 of the 1996 Act;\n“registered pupil” means a pupil registered as such in the register kept in accordance with section 434 of the 1996 Act;\n“relevant person” means, in relation to a non-maintained special school, the person or body of persons responsible for the management of the school.\n“special school” has the meaning assigned to it by section 337 of the 1996 Act;\n(2) Except where the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to a regulation or Schedule is a reference to a regulation contained therein or to the Schedule thereto, any reference to a paragraph is a reference to a paragraph of the regulation or Schedule in which the reference is made, and any reference to a sub-paragraph is a reference to a sub-paragraph of the paragraph in which the reference is made.",
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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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