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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-and-disability-act-2001/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2001/10",
  "legislation_title": "Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-and-disability-act-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend Part 4 of the Education Act 1996; to make further provision against discrimination, on grounds of disability, in schools and other educational establishments; and for connected purposes.\n[11th May 2001]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
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  "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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