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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-1980/section-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/44",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Duty of education authorities to provide child guidance service.",
  "text": "It shall be the duty of every education authority to provide for their area [. . .] psychological service ..., and the functions of that service shall include—\n(a) the study of children having additional support needs;]\n(b) the giving of advice to parents and teachers as to appropriate methods of education. . . for such children;\n(c) in suitable cases,. . . provision for the additional support needs of such children ... ... ...;\n(d) the giving of advice to a local authority within the meaning of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 regarding the assessment of the needs of any child for the purposes of any of the provisions of that or any other enactment.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986 (c. 33, SIF 113:1), s. 14(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 4 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 118(2), Sch.14; S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(c)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 4 repealed (14.11.2005) by Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 4), s. 35(1), sch. 3 para. 3(3)(a); S.S.I. 2005/564, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 4(a) substituted by Education (Scotland) Act 1981 (c. 58), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2(a), Sch. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(a) substituted (14.11.2005) by Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 4), s. 35(1), sch. 3 para. 3(3)(b); S.S.I. 2005/564, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words repealed by Education (Scotland) Act 1981 (c. 58), Sch. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word repealed by Education (Scotland) Act 1981 (c. 58), Sch. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words substituted by Education (Scotland) Act 1981 (c. 58), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2(c), Sch. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(c) substituted (14.11.2005) by Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 4), s. 35(1), sch. 3 para. 3(3)(c)(i); S.S.I. 2005/564, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(c) repealed (14.11.2005) by Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 4), s. 35(1), sch. 3 para. 3(3)(c)(ii); S.S.I. 2005/564, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words repealed by Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986 (c. 33, SIF 113:1), s. 14(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1968 c. 49."
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/44/section/4",
    "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."
}