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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-act-1985/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/47",
  "legislation_title": "Further Education Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-act-1985",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to empower local education authorities to supply goods and services through further education establishments and to make loans to certain other persons to enable them to do so; to repeal section 28(b) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975; and for connected purposes.\n[16th July 1985]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act except ss. 4 and 5 amended by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), s. 163(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act except ss. 4 and 5 modified by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), s. 236(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act applied (provinces of Canterbury and York except Channel Islands and Isle of Man)(1.8.1991) by Diocesan Boards of Education Measure 1991 (No. 2), s. 7(3);Archbishops' Instrument made 26.7.1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act: certain functions transferred (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch.1Act (except ss. 4, 5) applied (1.6.2001) by S.I. 2001/1507, reg. 2, Sch. 2 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act applied (E.W.) (1.4.2005) by Central Sussex College (Government) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/397), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act modified in part (7.4.2005) by Education Act 2005 (c. 18), ss. 96(2), 125(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Act: Education Acts modified (temp.) (1.4.2007) by Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40), s. 188(3), Sch. 6 para. 3(3); S.I. 2007/935, art. 5(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act partly in force at Royal Assent; Act wholly in force at 16.9.1985 see s. 7"
    }
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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."
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