{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-schools-act-1992/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-schools-act-1992/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/38",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Schools) Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-schools-act-1992",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Power of local education authority to inspect maintained school for specific purpose.",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a local education authority require information about any matter in connection with a school which is maintained by them, for the purpose of enabling them to exercise any function of theirs, and\n(b) it is not reasonably practicable for them to obtain it in any other manner,\nthey may cause an inspection of the school to be made by one or more of their officers for the purpose of obtaining that information.\n(2) Any officer of a local education authority inspecting a school under this section shall have at all reasonable times a right of entry to the premises of the school.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 15 wholly in force; s. 15 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 21(3); s. 15 in force in relation to secondary schools on 1.9.1993 and in force in relation to other schools on 1.9.1994 by S.I. 1993/1491, art. 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/38/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:46.842562+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."
}