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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthy-eating-in-schools-nutritional-standards-and-requirements-wales-regulations-2013/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2013/1984",
  "legislation_title": "The Healthy Eating in Schools (Nutritional Standards and Requirements) (Wales) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthy-eating-in-schools-nutritional-standards-and-requirements-wales-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Lunch in maintained primary and secondary schools",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a local authority or a governing body of a maintained school provides school lunch on a school day to—\n(a) registered pupils at a maintained school whether on school premises or at a place other than school premises; and\n(b) any other person on the school premises.\n(2) The local authority or governing body must ensure that school lunch provided to a person specified in paragraph (1) complies with the requirements in Schedule 3 and the nutritional standards in Schedule 4.\n(3) The local authority or governing body must ensure that school lunch provided to pupils on a school trip on a school day complies with the requirements in Schedule 3 and the nutritional standards in Schedule 4.\n(4) Where a local authority or a governing body provides both primary and secondary education at the school, the school lunch provided to—\n(a) a junior pupil must comply with the requirements for primary schools in Schedule 3 and the nutritional standards for primary schools in Schedule 4; and\n(b) a senior pupil must comply with the requirements for secondary schools in Schedule 3 and the nutritional standards for secondary schools in Schedule 4.\n(5) Where a school is open for fewer than five days in any week the requirements in Schedule 3 which refer to the number of times food must or must not be provided by reference to a week apply as if the school were open for the whole of that week.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 2.9.2013, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2025/1343",
      "affecting_title": "The Healthy Eating in Schools (Nutritional Standards and Requirements) (Maintained Primary Schools) (Wales) Regulations 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "word inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2025/1343",
      "affecting_title": "The Healthy Eating in Schools (Nutritional Standards and Requirements) (Maintained Primary Schools) (Wales) Regulations 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2025/1343",
      "affecting_title": "The Healthy Eating in Schools (Nutritional Standards and Requirements) (Maintained Primary Schools) (Wales) Regulations 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2013/1984/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:41:59.615546+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."
}