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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-organisation-proposals-wales-regulations-1999/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1671",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Organisation Proposals) (Wales) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-organisation-proposals-wales-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Objections to proposals",
  "text": "(1) This regulation—\n(a) prescribes for the purposes of paragraph 7(2)(a) and (3) of Schedule 6, paragraph 12(2) of Schedule 7 and paragraph 9(6) of Schedule 23 to the Act the period within which objections to proposals mentioned in those paragraphs relating to mainstream schools may be sent to the local education authority or the Assembly (as the case may be); and\n(b) prescribes for the purposes of paragraph 7(2)(b) of Schedule 6 to the Act the period within which a local education authority must send to the Assembly copies of objections to proposals relating to mainstream schools.\n(2) Objections to proposals published under section 28 or 29 of, or paragraph 5 of Schedule 7 or paragraph 9 of Schedule 23 to, the Act shall be sent to the local education authority or the Assembly (as the case may be)—\n(a) within the period of two months after the date of publication of the proposals, except where sub-paragraph (b) applies, or\n(b) within the period of one month after the date of publication of the proposals, where—\n(i) the proposals are published under section 28 of the Act to make a prescribed alteration to, or published under section 29 of the Act to discontinue, a school to which section 15 of the Act applies, or\n(ii) the proposals are published under section 28 of the Act to establish a new school on the same site as a school to which section 15 of the Act applies and which it is proposed to discontinue.\n(3) The local education authority shall send copies of objections made (and not withdrawn in writing) within the objection period, together with their observations thereon, to the Assembly in accordance with paragraph 7(2)(b) of Schedule 6 to the Act within—\n(a) the period of one month after the end of the objection period except where the proposals fall within paragraph (2)(b); and\n(b) the period of two weeks after the end of the objection period where the proposals fall within paragraph (2)(b).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2006/173",
      "affecting_title": "The Education Act 2002 (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2006/173",
      "affecting_title": "The Education Act 2002 (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2011/190",
      "affecting_title": "The School Organisation (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2011/190",
      "affecting_title": "The School Organisation (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1671/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:35:33.394449+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."
}