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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-day-and-school-year-wales-regulations-2003/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2003/3231",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) Regulations 2003",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": "School sessions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (6), every day on which a school meets is to be divided into two sessions which are to be separated by a break in the middle of the day unless exceptional circumstances make this undesirable.\n(2) At least 380 sessions must be held at a school during any school year save that nothing in this paragraph is to require a nursery class to meet for that number of sessions.\n(3) Where at any time a school is prevented from meeting for one or more sessions for which it was intended that it should meet, and it is not reasonably practicable for arrangements to be made for it to meet at an alternative time for those sessions, the school is to be treated for the purposes of paragraph (2) as if it had met as intended.\n(4) Subject to paragraph (5), on every day on which a nursery school or nursery class meets there must be provided at least three hours of suitable activities.\n(5) On a day on which a pupil —\n(a) attends a nursery school or nursery class which meets for only a single session; or\n(b) attends a nursery school or nursery class for one only of two sessions, it is sufficient to provide the pupil with one and a half hours of suitable activities.\n(6) In a school which meets on six days a week there may on two of those days be only a single session.",
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  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
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      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 31.12.2003, see reg. 1(1)"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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