{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-schools-act-1992/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-schools-act-1992/section-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/38",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Schools) Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-schools-act-1992",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement, extent etc.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Section 17 extends to Scotland only.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 21 except s. 21(5) repealed (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 57, ss. 47(2), 48(2), Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 21 partly in force; s. 21(1)-(6) in force at Royal Assent see s. 21(3); s. 21(7)(8) in force for specified purposes: at 16.5.1992 and 31.8.1992 by S.I. 1992/1157, art. 2, Sch.; at 1.5.1993 by S.I. 1993/1190, art. 3; at 12.6.1993 by S.I. 1993/1491, art. 3(1); at 1.9.1993 and 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/21",
    "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."
}