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  "legislation_title": "The Education (Special Educational Needs) (Information) (England) Regulations 1999",
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  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations–\n“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996;\n“the 1998 Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;\n“maintained school” means a community, foundation or voluntary school;\n“maintained special school” means a community or foundation special school; and\n“statement” means a statement of special educational needs within the meaning of section 324(1) of the 1996 Act.",
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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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