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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-special-schools-regulations-1994/schedule/part-I/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/652",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Special Schools) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-special-schools-regulations-1994",
  "path": "schedule/part/I/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Premises",
  "text": "(1) The premises of the school shall, subject to sub-paragraph (2), conform to the standards prescribed by regulations from time to time in force under section 10 of the Education Act 1944 and applicable in the case of a maintained special school.\n(2) If the Secretary of State is satisfied with respect to the school that it would be unreasonable to require conformity with a requirement of the said regulations as to any matter having regard to all the circumstances of the case, he may give a direction that the school premises shall, while the direction remains in force, be deemed to conform to the prescribed standards as respects matters with which the direction deals if such conditions, if any, as may be specified in the direction as respects those matters are observed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The regulations currently in force are the Education (School Premises) Regulations 1981, S.I. 1981/909, as amended by S.I. 1989/1277, 1990/2351 and 1993/559."
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}