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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-organisation-proposals-wales-regulations-1999/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
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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/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of paragraph 3 above and subject to paragraph 5 below, the workplace number which applies in relation to an area of teaching space is that specified in the second column of the table below, opposite the reference in the first column of the table to the area of teaching space at the school which shall be determined by calculating the floor area, in square metres, of that space, rounded down to the nearest whole number.\nTABLE\nTeaching Space (in square metres of floor area)\nWorkplace Number\nGeneral Teaching Space\n9 or, less\n0\n10-14\n0 or, in the case of such teaching space for the purposes of sixth form pupils, 5 if the local education authority so determine.\n15-19\n10\n20-29\n15\n30-39\n20\n40-45\n25\n46 or over\n30, or such larger number, being a multiple of 5, as the local education authority may determine.\nHeavy Practical and Large Teaching Space\n19 or less\n0\n20-39\n5\n40-79\n10\n80-119\n20\n120 or over\n30, or such larger number, being a multiple of 5, as the local education authority may determine.\nLight Practical Teaching Space\n19 or less\n0\n20-39\n5\n40-59\n10\n60-79\n20\n80 or over\n30, or such larger number, being a multiple of 5, as the local education authority may determine.\nSports and Physical Education Teaching Space\n39 or less\n0\n40-79\n5\n80-159\n10\n160-239\n20\n240 or over\n30 multiplied by the number of complete floor areas of 240 square metres contained in the teaching space.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "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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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1671/schedule/1/paragraph/4",
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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."
}