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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-leaving-date-order-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1970",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Leaving Date) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-leaving-date-order-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order provides for the school leaving date for 1998 and successive years to be the last Friday in June. This date applies for the purpose of determining, in accordance with section 8(3) of the Education Act 1996, when a person ceases to be of compulsory school age.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1970/note",
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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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