{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-pupil-referral-units-closure-england-regulations-2010/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-pupil-referral-units-closure-england-regulations-2010/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/1071",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Closure) (England) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-pupil-referral-units-closure-england-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Compliance with alternative arrangements direction",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies when a local authority—\n(a) has been given a closure direction in relation to a unit; and\n(b) is given an alternative arrangements direction as a result of the closure direction.\n(2) The local authority must secure that the education to be provided under the alternative arrangements, in accordance with the alternative arrangements direction, is provided from the closure date until the alternative arrangements direction is revoked in accordance with regulation 6 (2).\n(3) The “closure date” is the date specified in the closure direction for the discontinuance of the unit.\n(4) The duty imposed by paragraph (1) does not affect the local authority’s duty under section 19 of the Education Act 1996 (exceptional provision of education in units or elsewhere).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Regulations substituted (1.9.2012) by The Pupil Referral Units (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1825), regs. 1(1), 4(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.9.2010, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/1071/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:44:37.718917+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."
}