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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-lunches-prescribed-requirements-england-order-2003/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/382",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Lunches) (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-lunches-prescribed-requirements-england-order-2003",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order –\n“lunch period” means the period between the morning and afternoon sessions on a school day;\n“nursery education” means full-time or part-time education suitable for children who have not attained compulsory school age; and\n“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/382/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:31:38.943556+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."
}