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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-1980/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-1980/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/44",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Secretary of State may prescribe standards, etc., for education authorities.",
  "text": "The Secretary of State may make regulations prescribing the standards and . . . requirements to which every education authority shall conform in discharging their functions under section 1 of this Act and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, such regulations may include provision as to the testing of pupils in primary schools.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 2 repealed (18.9.1996) by 1996 c. 43, s. 36, Sch. 6; S.I. 1996/2250, art. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words inserted by Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989 (c. 39, SIF 41:2), s. 69(1)"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/44/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:17.434244+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."
}