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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988-commencement-no-1-order-1988/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1459",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Reform Act 1988 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988-commencement-no-1-order-1988",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Coming into force of certain provisions of the Act",
  "text": "Subsections (4) to (8) of section 27 of the Act shall come into force—\n(a) for the purpose of enabling orders reducing any standard number applying to a secondary school to be made under subsection (5) and applications for such orders to be made as mentioned in subsection (6), on 1st September 1988;\n(b) for the purpose of enabling orders increasing any standard number applying to a secondary school to be made under subsection (5) and applications for such orders to be made as mentioned in subsection (7), on 1st September 1989; and\n(c) for their remaining purposes (so far as they relate to secondary schools) on 4th August 1990.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1459/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:00:29.190276+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."
}