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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-admissions-exceptional-circumstances-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2010/19",
  "legislation_title": "School Admissions (Exceptional Circumstances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-admissions-exceptional-circumstances-regulations-northern-ireland-2010",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Examples of Circumstances",
  "text": "Examples of circumstances which may be regarded as exceptional circumstances requiring the admission of a child to a particular school are—\n(a) circumstances where in the opinion of a registered medical practitioner the child has been subjected to sexual abuse;\n(b) circumstances where a child is looked after by an authority (as defined in Article 25 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "SI 1995/975 (NI2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/19/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:29:01.096374+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."
}