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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-loans-act-1998-repealed-1381998/section-7",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/1",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Student Loans) Act 1998 (repealed 13.8.1998)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-loans-act-1998-repealed-1381998",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Short title, interpretation, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Education (Student Loans) Act 1998.\n(2) This Act shall be included in the list of Education Acts set out in section 578 of the Education Act 1996.\n(3) In this Act “the 1990 Act” means the Education (Student Loans) Act 1990.\n(4) The following provisions of this Act, namely—\nsections 2 and 3, and\nsection 6(2) and the Schedule,\nshall not come into force until such day as the Secretary of State may appoint by order made by statutory instrument, and different days may be so appointed for different provisions.\n(5) Apart from section 4 and this section, this Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1996 c. 56."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1990 c. 6."
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 7(4) power fully exercised (5.2.1998): 1.3.1998 appointed day for specified provisions by S.I. 1998/210, art. 2"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/1/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:23:29.541334+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."
}