{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-special-schools-regulations-1994/schedule/part-II/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-special-schools-regulations-1994/schedule/part-II/paragraph-12.json",
  "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/II/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Milk, meals and refreshment",
  "text": "(1) In the case of a non-maintained special school, the governing body—\n(a) shall provide such facilities as they consider appropriate for the consumption of any meals or refreshments brought to school by day pupils, and\n(b) shall ensure, in relation to a day pupil whose parents are in receipt of income support or who is himself in receipt of it, that such provision is made for him in the middle of the day, by way of milk, a meal or other refreshment, as appears to them to be requisite.\n(2) In the case of such a school, no charge shall be made—\n(a) for facilities provided in pursuance of sub-paragraph (1)(a), or\n(b) for anything provided in pursuance of sub-paragraph (1)(b) for such a pupil as is there mentioned.\n(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the governing body must charge for anything provided by them to day pupils by way of milk, a meal or other refreshment and must charge every pupil the same price for the same quantity of the same item.\n(4) Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as precluding the governing body of a school, when determining the tuition and other fees payment of which is a condition of attendance at the school, from taking into account the net cost to them of providing for day pupils—\n(a) such facilities as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a) and\n(b) milk, meals and other refreshment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/652/schedule/part/II/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:37:54.867740+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."
}