{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/schools-general-scotland-regulations-1975/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/schools-general-scotland-regulations-1975/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/1135",
  "legislation_title": "The Schools General (Scotland) Regulations 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/schools-general-scotland-regulations-1975",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Closure of schools on advice of medical officer",
  "text": "Where a health board competent person advises an education authority that, in order to prevent the spread of disease or other danger to health, a school under their management should be closed temporarily or that certain pupils should be excluded from that school for a specified time or, where that school is a boarding school, that the pupils should be confined to the school premises for a specified time, the education authority shall forthwith close that school or exclude or confine the said pupils, as the case may be, accordingly.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6 substituted (1.10.2009) by The Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 (Commencement No. 2, Savings and Consequential Provisions) Order 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/319), art. 2(b), sch. 2 para. 8(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 9.8.1975, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/1135/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:05:30.248953+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."
}