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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988-commencement-no-1-order-1988/article-5",
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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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Coming into force of certain provisions of the Act",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (1) of section 31 of the Act shall come into force (so far as it relates to secondary schools) on 4th August 1990.\n(2) Subsection (2) of section 31 of the Act shall come into force (so far as it relates to the publication of admission arrangements for secondary schools for the school year beginning next after 4th August 1990 and subsequent school years) on 1st September 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1459/article/5",
    "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."
}