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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-organisation-prescribed-alterations-to-maintained-schools-england-regulations-2007/schedule-4/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1289",
  "legislation_title": "The School Organisation (Prescribed Alterations to Maintained Schools) (England) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-organisation-prescribed-alterations-to-maintained-schools-england-regulations-2007",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Alteration of lower age limit",
  "text": "(1) The alteration of the lower age limit such that when taken with all previous such alterations (if any) taking place since the appropriate date the lower age limit is at least a year higher or lower than the lower age limit on the appropriate date.\n(2) In this paragraph—\n“the lower age limit” in relation to the school means the lowest age of pupils for whom education is normally provided at the school; and\n“the appropriate date” means whichever is the latest of the following dates—\n(a) the date falling 5 years before the date on which the local education authority or, as the case may be, the governing body, form the intention to make the alteration in question;\n(b) the date on which the school was established;\n(c) where any previous proposals for a change in the lower age limit have been approved under any of the provisions mentioned in this paragraph, the date (or latest date) on which the last of any such proposals were implemented;\n(3) This paragraph does not apply where the alteration of the lower age limit is a temporary one which will be in place for no more than 2 years.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 4 in force at 25.5.2007, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1289/schedule/4/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:54:49.330293+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."
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