{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-schools-and-further-education-amendment-regulations-1987/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-schools-and-further-education-amendment-regulations-1987/regulation-3.json",
  "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",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Duration of school year",
  "text": "With effect from 1st August 1987 the said regulation 10 shall be further amended as follows—\n(1) In paragraph (2), for the provision before the proviso there shall be substituted the following provision—\n“(2) In each academic year a school shall meet for not less than 380 sessions which shall constitute the school year so however that nothing in this paragraph shall require a nursery class to meet for that number of sessions:”;\n(2) In paragraph (3), for the words “paragraphs (5), (6) and (7)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs (5) and (6)”;\n(3) For paragraph (7) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“(7) In this regulation “academic year” means a period of 12 months beginning on 1st September unless the school has a term beginning in August in which case it means a period of 12 months beginning on 1st August.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/879/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:26:34.901625+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."
}