{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1974/schedule-5/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1974/schedule-5/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/7",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1974",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Any action concerning—\n(a) the giving of instruction, whether secular or religious, or\n(b) conduct, curriculum, internal organisation, management or discipline,\nin any school or other educational establishment maintained by the authority , except so far as relating to special educational needs (within the meaning given by section 579(1) of the Education Act 1996) or additional learning needs (within the meaning given by section 2 of the Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 5(1) repealed (1.10.1998) by 1998 c. 31, s. 140(3), Sch. 31 (with ss. 138(9), 144(6)); S.I. 1998/2212, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 231(7), 235(6), 237(1), Sch. 12 para. 71"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 5(2) inserted (12.1.2010) by Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22), ss. 261, 269(4); S.I. 2009/3317, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 5(2)(b) substituted (1.9.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), s. 139(6), Sch. 3 para. 63; S.I. 2014/889, art. 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 5(2)(b) inserted (1.9.2021) by The Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/861), regs. 1, 2(2)"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:46:10.523024+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."
}