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ChapterShort titleExtent of repeal
1944 c.31.Education Act 1944.The whole Act.
1946 c.49.Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946.In Schedule 4, the entry relating to the Education Act 1944.
1946 c.50.Education Act 1946.The whole Act.
1948 c.40.Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948.The whole Act.
1953 c.33.Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953.The whole Act.
1959 c.53.Town and Country Planning Act 1959.In Schedule 4, paragraph 4.
1959 c.60.Education Act 1959.The whole Act.
1961 c.45.Rating and Valuation Act 1961.The whole Act.
1962 c.12.Education Act 1962.Section 9.
Section 13(4).
Section 14(2).
1963 c.37.Children and Young Persons Act 1963.Section 38(2).
1964 c.82.Education Act 1964.The whole Act.
1967 c.3.Education Act 1967.Section 2.
In section 6(1), the words from “and this Act” onwards.
1967 c.80.Criminal Justice Act 1967.In Part I of Schedule 3, the entry relating to the Education Act 1944.
1968 c.17.Education Act 1968.The whole Act.
1968 c.xxxixGreater London Council (General Powers) Act 1968.Section 56.
1970 c.42.Local Authority Social Services Act 1970.In Schedule 1, the entry relating to the Education Act 1993.
1970 c.52.Education (Handicapped Children) Act 1970.The whole Act.
1972 c.70.Local Government Act 1972.Section 192.
1973 c.16.Education Act 1973.Section 1(2).
Section 2.
In section 5(1), the words from “, and the Education Acts” onwards.
In Schedule 1, paragraph 3.
1973 c.23.Education (Work Experience) Act 1973.The whole Act.
1975 c.2.Education Act 1975.The whole Act.
1976 c.5.Education (School-leaving Dates) Act 1976.The whole Act.
1976 c.81.Education Act 1976.The whole Act.
1977 c.49.National Health Service Act 1977.In Schedule 14, in paragraph 13(1)(b) “7 to 9”.
In Schedule 15, paragraphs 2 and 3.
1979 c.49.Education Act 1979.The whole Act.
1980 c.20.Education Act 1980.Sections 1 to 18.
Sections 21 and 22.
Section 24.
Section 26.
Sections 28 to 30.
Section 33(3).
Sections 34 and 35.
Section 37.
In section 38, subsections (2) and (4) to (6).
Schedules 1 to 4.
Schedule 7.
1980 c.65.Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980.Section 2(3).
1981 c.60.Education Act 1981.The whole Act.
1982 c.48.Criminal Justice Act 1982.In Schedule 3, the entries relating to the Education Act 1944.
1984 c.11.Education (Grants and Awards) Act 1984.The whole Act.
1985 c.47.Further Education Act 1985.Section 8(2).
1986 c.50.Social Security Act 1986.Section 77 so far as relating to section 22 of the Education Act 1980.
1986 c.61.Education (No.2) Act 1986.Sections 1 to 42.
Sections 44 to 47.
Sections 51 to 60.
In section 62(1), paragraph (a) and the “(b)” immediately following it.
In section 63, in subsection (1) the words “(other than under section 2(7), 9(6) or 54)”, in subsection (2) “51 or”, and subsection (2A).
In section 65(1), all the definitions except that of “establishment of higher or further education”.
In section 66, in subsection (1) “60 and” and “to (3)”, and in subsection (2) “and 59”.
In section 67, subsections (2), (5) and (6).
Schedules 1 to 3.
In Schedule 4, paragraphs 1, 2 and 5.
Schedules 5 and 6.
1987 c.15.Reverter of Sites Act 1987.Section 8(1).
1988 c.40.Education Reform Act 1988.Part I.
Section 120(5) and (9).
In section 210, in each of subsections (1) and (3)(d) the words “[F1local authorities] or”.
In section 211, paragraphs (a) and (b) and the words “the school or”.
Sections 212 and 213.
In section 218, in subsection (1) in each of paragraphs (e) and (f) the words “schools and” and paragraph (g), in subsection (7) the words from “or, in such cases” to “the funding authority” and the words “school or” (where first occurring) and “any school or”, and subsections (8) and (13).
Section 222.
Sections 225 and 227.
Section 229(1).
In section 230(1), “section 15(2)”.
In section 232, subsection (3) and, in subsection (4)(b), “3(4)(a), 4(2)(c), 24”.
Section 234.
In section 235, in subsection (1) the definition of “the 1980 Act”.
In section 236, in subsection (1) the words from “section 1” to “section 119” and “sections 212 and 213”, and subsections (2) and (3).
Section 238(2).
Schedules 1 to 4.
In Schedule 12, paragraphs 1 to 8, 14, 17, 24, 25, 34, 35, 37, 54 to 62, 69(4), 76, 77, 81, 82, 87(3), 99, 102, 103 and 106.
1989 c.41.Children Act 1989.In Schedule 13, paragraphs 9 and 10.
1989 c.42.Local Government and Housing Act 1989.In section 13(9), the definition of “foundation governors” and the “and” immediately following it.
Section 188.
1990 c.6.Education (Student Loans) Act 1990.Section 4(2).
1990 c.19.National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990.In Schedule 9, paragraph 31.
1990 c.38.Employment Act 1990.Section 14.
In section 18(2), the words from “section 14” to “experience)”.
1991 c.21.Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991.In Schedule 3, paragraph 12.
1991 c.49.School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Act 1991.Section 6(2).
1991 No.2.Diocesan Boards of Education Measure 1991.In section 10(1), the definition of “the 1988 Act”.
1992 c.13.Further and Higher Education Act 1992.Sections 10 to 14.
Section 59.
In section 92, the entries for “pupil”, “secondary education” and “school”.
Section 94(2).
In Schedule 8, paragraphs 1 to 17, 24 to 26, 28, 43(b), 50, 53, 54, 56, 57 and 82.
1992 c.38.Education (Schools) Act 1992.Section 16.
In Schedule 4, paragraphs 1 and 4 to 6.
1993 c.8.Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993.In Schedule 6, paragraph 51.
1993 c.10.Charities Act 1993.In Schedule 2, paragraphs (e) and (g).
1993 c.35.Education Act 1993.The whole Act.
1994 c.19.Local Government (Wales) Act 1994.Section 21.
In Schedule 16, paragraphs 8 and 105.
1994 c.30.Education Act 1994.Section 27(2).
In Schedule 2, paragraphs 5(2) and (4)(a), 6(2) and (4)(a) and 8(2) to (4).
1995 c.17.Health Authorities Act 1995.In Schedule 1, paragraphs 112 and 124.
1995 c.18.Jobseekers Act 1995.In Schedule 2, paragraphs 3 and 17.
1995 c.21.Merchant Shipping Act 1995.In Schedule 13, paragraph 48.
1995 c.50.Disability Discrimination Act 1995.Section 29(1) and (2).
Section 30(7) to (9).
1996 c.9.Education (Student Loans) Act 1996.Section 4(2).
1996 c.18.Employment Rights Act 1996.In Schedule 1, paragraph 59.
1996 c.23.Arbitration Act 1996.In Schedule 3, paragraphs 4 and 59.
1996 c.50.Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Act 1996.Section 7.
In Schedule 3, paragraphs 1 to 8 and 10 to 15.

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