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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988-commencement-no-4-order-1988/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2271",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Reform Act 1988 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-reform-act-1988-commencement-no-4-order-1988",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Coming into force of certain provisions of the Act",
  "text": "The provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of Schedules 1 to 6 to this Order (which relate to the matters mentioned in column 2 thereof) shall, except as otherwise provided in the said column 1, come into force on the date specified in relation to each Schedule in the following table—\nSchedule 1 1st January 1989\nSchedule 2 1st February 1989\nSchedule 3 1st April 1989\nSchedule 4 1st August 1989\nSchedule 5 1st April 1990\nSchedule 6 1st August 1990\nand 1st February 1989 shall be the appointed day for the purposes of section 121 of the Act for the Southampton Institute of Higher Education.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2271/article/2",
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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."
}