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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-organisation-proposals-england-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1229",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Organisation Proposals) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-organisation-proposals-england-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of Principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 2—\n(a) in paragraph (1)—\n(i) after the definition of “16-19 institution” there shall be inserted the following definitions—\n““admission number” means the number of pupils in any relevant age group that it is intended to admit or (where the context requires) have been admitted, as determined by the admission authority in accordance with sections 89 and 89A of the Act ;\n“the capacity guidance” means the Department for Education and Skills Guidance “Assessing the Net Capacity of Schools” issued in August 2002, reference number DfES/0739REV/2001;”;\n(ii) the definition of “city academy” shall be omitted;\n(iii) after the definition of further education college there shall be inserted the following definition –\n““indicated admission number” means the number of pupils in any relevant age group referred to as such in, and determined in accordance with, the net capacity assessment method set out in the capacity guidance;”; and\n(iv) at the end there shall be inserted “and any reference to paragraph 7, 8 or 9 of Schedule 7 includes a reference to any of those paragraphs as they apply, by virtue of section 71(7) of the Education Act 2002, to proposals made under section 71(4) of that Act.”;\n(b) for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph —\n“(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, except Part VI of Schedule 3, the capacity of a school shall be the net capacity determined in accordance with the capacity guidance;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 89 was amended by Schedule 4 to, and section 89A was inserted by section 47(2) of, the Education Act 2002."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "ISBN 1 84185 610 X."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1229/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:24:39.159205+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."
}