{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-organisation-plans-england-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-organisation-plans-england-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1201",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Organisation Plans) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-organisation-plans-england-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Education (School Organisation Plans) (England) Regulations 1999",
  "text": "In regulation 4–\n(a) for paragraphs (3) and (4) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs–\n“(3) The authority shall —\n(a) prepare a further draft plan every year up to and including 2003; and\n(b) (without prejudice to paragraph (4)) prepare a draft plan every third year thereafter.\n(4) The authority shall in addition prepare a draft plan in any year in which they are not required to publish a draft plan by virtue of paragraph (3)(c) if there has been any change of policy or local circumstances relating to the provision of primary or secondary education since the last plan was prepared.”;\n(b) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted –\n“(5) The draft plan required to be published in 2003 shall be published by 1st August 2003.\n(6) The authority shall publish further draft plans by 1st June in the year that they are prepared.\n(7) Before publishing a draft plan the authority shall consult such persons as appear to them to be appropriate.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1201/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:24:43.305511+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."
}