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  "legislation": "asp/2004/12",
  "legislation_title": "School Education (Ministerial Powers and Independent Schools) (Scotland) Act 2004",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act of the Scottish Parliament to confer power on the Scottish Ministers, following inspection of a public or grant-aided school or of an education authority, to direct the school managers or the authority to take specified action; to provide that all non-public schools which provide full-time education for pupils of school age are independent schools; to abolish provisional registration of independent schools; to make amended provision for the registration and regulation of independent schools; to provide for appeals to the sheriff principal against certain decisions by the Scottish Ministers in relation to such schools; and for connected purposes.\nThe Bill for this Act of the Scottish Parliament was passed by the Parliament on 6th October 2004 and received Royal Assent on 12th November 2004",
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  "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."
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