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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-organisation-proposals-wales-regulations-1999/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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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": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The capacity of a primary school is to be determined in accordance with the following formula—\nX+Y-Z where—\nX is the sum of the numbers (rounded down to the nearest whole number in the case of each number) obtained by dividing the total floor area of each classroom in the school whose floor area is less than 54 square metres by 1.8;\nY is the number of complete floor areas of 54 square metres in those classrooms in the school whose floor area is 54 square metres or more, multiplied by 30;\nZ is the number of pupils in the school in respect of whom notices have been served by a local education authority that they propose to make an assessment of their special educational needs in accordance with section 323 of the Education Act 1996 (“pupils subject to assessment”) or for whom statements of special educational needs are maintained by such authority in accordance with section 324 of that Act (“pupils with statements”), multiplied by 2.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 56."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 324 is prospectively amended by paragraph 77(a) of Schedule 30 to the Act and amended by paragraph 77(b) of that Schedule with effect from 1st October 1998 (S.I. 1998/2212, Schedule 1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2004/908",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (School Organisation Proposals) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2006/173",
      "affecting_title": "The Education Act 2002 (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2006"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}