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<Title><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2014/8" id="c00001" Class="ScottishAct" Year="2014" Number="0008">Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014</Citation></Title>
<Number>8</Number>
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<DateText>27 March 2014</DateText>
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<Title><CitationSubRef id="c00498" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2014/8/section/77" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-77">Section 77</CitationSubRef> – Restriction on closure proposals</Title>
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<Text><CitationSubRef id="c00500" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2014/8/section/77" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-77">Section 77</CitationSubRef> inserts a new section 2A (restriction on closure proposals) after section 2 of the <Abbreviation Expansion="Schools (Consultation) (Scotland) Act 2010 asp 2">2010 Act</Abbreviation>.  Section 2A(3) provides that, following a decision not to implement a closure proposal, an education authority would not be able to publish a proposal paper under section 4(4) of the 2010 Act for the same school within 5 years (beginning with the day on which the decision not to implement a closure proposal is made) unless there had been a significant change in the school’s circumstances.</Text>
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<Text>Subsection (2) of section 2A makes it clear what is meant by “a decision not to implement a closure proposal”, which is a decision taken by an education authority not to implement the proposal after it has published a consultation report on the proposal, or a decision by a School Closure Review Panel to refuse consent to the proposal.</Text>
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