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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-schools-and-further-education-amendment-regulations-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/879",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Schools and Further Education) (Amendment) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-schools-and-further-education-amendment-regulations-1987",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend that part of regulation 10 of the Education (Schools and Further Education) Regulations 1981 which relates to the duration of the school year.\nRegulation 2, which comes into force on 8th June 1987, amends regulation 10(7), inserted by the Education (Schools and Further Education) (Amendment) Regulations 1986, to provide that where, in the year ending on 31st July 1987, a school session is devoted to the provision to teachers at the school of training related to the introduction of the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE), it shall be treated for the purpose of regulation 10 as a session on which the school has met. This provision applies in relation to a maximum of two sessions in that year.\nRegulation 3, which comes into force on 1st August 1987, deletes the provisions relating to training for the GCSE inserted in 1986, as so amended (which by then will be spent) and makes fresh provision for the duration of the school year.\nThis duration continues to be expressed as a minimum number of sessions. Regulation 10(1) of the 1981 Regulations provides that every day on which a school meets shall normally be divided into two sessions, except in cases where the school meets on six days a week. With effect from 1st August 1987 the minimum number of sessions is reduced from 400 (subject to reduction for occasional holidays granted in term-time) to 380 in each academic year, defined as a period of 12 months beginning on 1st September, unless the school has a term which begins in August, in which case the year begins on 1st August. No provision is made for occasional holidays.\nRegulation 4 revokes the amending Regulations made in 1986.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/879/note",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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