{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-lunches-prescribed-requirement-wales-order-2003/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-lunches-prescribed-requirement-wales-order-2003/note.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2003/880",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Lunches) (Prescribed Requirement) (Wales) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-lunches-prescribed-requirement-wales-order-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSection 512(3)(a) of the Education Act 1996 places a duty on Local Education Authorities to provide school lunches to pupils eligible for free school lunches, provided any prescribed requirements are met. This Order prescribes such a requirement.\nThe requirement is set out in Article 3. It only applies to registered pupils receiving nursery education; they must be receiving full-time nursery education.\nArticle 4 contains a transitional provision, to prevent pupils undergoing part-time nursery education at maintained schools for whom free school lunches are already being provided when this Order comes into effect, from losing their entitlement to such lunches.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2003/880/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:11:25.243599+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."
}