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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-attendance-targets-england-regulations-1999/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-attendance-targets-england-regulations-1999/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Condition precedent",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to a school in respect of any school year where the school’s unauthorised absence rate for that year exceeds the national average for that year by at least 3 percentage points.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation the “national average”, in relation to a school year, means–\n(a) in relation to a primary school, other than a special school, the aggregated unauthorised absence rate in that year for every such school in England divided by the total number of such schools in England;\n(b) in relation to a secondary school, other than a special school, the aggregated unauthorised absence rate in that year for every such school in England divided by the total number of such schools in England; and\n(c) in relation to a special school, the aggregated unauthorised absence rate in that year for every maintained special school in England divided by the total number of maintained special schools in England.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev in pt (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/5",
    "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."
}