{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-premises-regulations-1996/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-premises-regulations-1996/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/360",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Premises) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-premises-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Sick rooms",
  "text": "(1) A boarding school shall include, as part of the boarding accommodation—\n(a) one or more sick rooms;\n(b) if the school has more than 40 boarding pupils, one or more separate isolation rooms; and\n(c) associated facilities by way of baths, washbasins and water closets,\nwhich satisfy the requirements of paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) In the case of a school with both male and female boarding pupils, any of whom have attained the age of 8 years, separate sick rooms shall be provided for male pupils and for female pupils.\n(3) The floor area of a sick room or isolation room shall not be less than 7.4 m2 for each bed and there shall be a distance of not less than 1.8&4uspace;m between any two beds in a sick room or isolation room.\n(4) A cubicle for a single pupil shall have its own window.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/360/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:52:11.430635+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."
}