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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-voluntary-schools-and-educational-charities-order-1973/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1973/2025",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Voluntary Schools and Educational Charities) Order 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-voluntary-schools-and-educational-charities-order-1973",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Construction of references to officers",
  "text": "Any reference (in whatever terms) contained in an instrument, or in articles of government, for a voluntary school to the chief education officer of a divisional executive or the council of an excepted district shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to the chief education officer of the local education authority by which the school is maintained.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1973/2025/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:57:10.238755+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."
}