{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-notification-of-school-term-dates-wales-regulations-2014/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2014/1249",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Notification of School Term Dates) (Wales) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-notification-of-school-term-dates-wales-regulations-2014",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 32A was inserted into the Education Act 2002 by section 42 of the Education (Wales) Act 2014. Section 32A(3) to (4) of the 2002 Act requires local authorities and governing bodies of foundation and voluntary aided schools to co-operate and co-ordinate with each to other to ensure that school term dates are the same (or as similar as can be).\nSection 32A(5) further provides that local authorities must notify the Welsh Ministers of the school term dates determined. These Regulations provide that the notice must be sent at least two school years in advance. Therefore, the first term dates which local authorities have determined and which must be notified to the Welsh Ministers are for the school year 2016/2017. Section 32A(6) provides that the Welsh Ministers may prescribe the form and content of the notifications, the period in which notification must be given and the procedure for notification. Accordingly, these Regulations make provision in relation to those matters.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2014/1249/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:38:40.169342+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."
}