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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-schools-and-further-education-regulations-1981/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1981/1086",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Schools and Further Education) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-schools-and-further-education-regulations-1981",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Schools and further education establishments to which Regulations apply",
  "text": "Except where the context otherwise requires, in these Regulations—\n(a) a reference to a school is a reference to a school maintained by a local education authority other than a special school;\n(b) a reference to a further education establishment is a reference to such an establishment provided by a local education authority or to one not so provided which, for the purposes hereof, is designated by the Secretary of State as one substantially dependent for its maintenance on assistance from local education authorities or on grants under section 100(1)(b) of the Education Act 1944.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See S. I. 1964/490, 1978/274"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1983/262",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Schools and Further Education) (Amendment) Regulations 1983"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/351",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Schools and Further and Higher Education) Regulations 1989"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1086/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:35:30.517085+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."
}