{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/religious-character-of-schools-designation-procedure-wales-regulations-2016/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/religious-character-of-schools-designation-procedure-wales-regulations-2016/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2016/1144",
  "legislation_title": "The Religious Character of Schools (Designation Procedure) (Wales) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/religious-character-of-schools-designation-procedure-wales-regulations-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Education, Wales\nMade 22 November 2016\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 25 November 2016\nComing into force 1 January 2017\nThe Welsh Ministers in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 69(5) and 138(7) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, and now exercisable by them make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 31. The functions of the Secretary of State under these sections were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) and then to the Welsh Ministers under section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2016/1144/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:28:34.230123+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."
}