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<Text>The Department of Education must, before the fifth anniversary of the commencement of this Act, review and make a report on the effectiveness of the definition of “deferred case” contained in the amendment made by section 1(2).</Text>
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<Text>The Department must lay a copy of the report before the Assembly.</Text>
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