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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-attendance-targets-england-regulations-1999/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-attendance-targets-england-regulations-1999/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/397",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Attendance Targets) (England) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-attendance-targets-england-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Duty to set school attendance targets",
  "text": "(1) Where the Secretary of State gives notice to the governing body of a school under regulation 4, that body shall secure that a target is set for the school in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation in respect of each of the three school years immediately following the notice year.\n(2) The target to be set in respect of each school year concerned is the level (expressed as a percentage) to which the unauthorised absence rate on the part of relevant day pupils at the school is to be reduced in that year.\n(3) The governing body shall secure that the targets referred to in paragraph (1) are set by no later than three months after the date on which notice is given under regulation 4.\n(4) Immediately after they have set targets pursuant to this regulation, the governing body shall give notice in writing to the Secretary of State setting out details of those targets and the school year to which each of them relates.\n(5) This regulation has effect subject to the provisions of regulation 7.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am (1.1.2002)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3785",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (School Attendance Targets) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/397/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:01:12.577902+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."
}