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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-day-and-school-year-wales-amendment-regulations-2012/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2012/248",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-day-and-school-year-wales-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "EDUCATION, WALES\nMade 1 February 2012\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 2 February 2012\nComing into force 24 February 2012\nThe Welsh Ministers in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 551 and 569(4) and (5) of the Education Act 1996 and now vested in them, make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 56. Section 551(1A) was inserted by paragraph 39 of Schedule 7 to the Education Act 1997 (c. 44), and section 551(2) was amended by paragraph 166 of Schedule 30 and Schedule 31 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31). For the meaning of “regulations” and “prescribed” see section 579(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the ational Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) and then to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2012/248/introduction",
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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."
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