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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/17/section/2</dc:identifier><dc:title>Education Act 1968 (repealed 1.11.1996)</dc:title><dc:description>An Act to amend the law as to the effect of and procedure for making changes in the character, size or situation of county schools or voluntary schools to enable special age limits to be adopted for existing as well as for new schools, and to make certain other amendments as to the approval or provision of school premises; and for purposes connected therewith.</dc:description><dc:date>1978-08-31</dc:date><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2011-05-26</dc:modified><dct:valid>1996-11-01</dct:valid>
					
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				</ukm:Metadata><Primary><Body DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/17/body" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/17/body" NumberOfProvisions="6" RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictEndDate="1996-11-01" Match="false"><P1group RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictEndDate="1996-11-01" Match="false"><Title> Schools with special age limits. <CommentaryRef Ref="c674268"/></Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/17/section/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/17/section/2" id="section-2"><Pnumber>2</Pnumber><P1para><Text>Section 1 of the <CommentaryRef Ref="c674269"/> Education Act 1964 (which enables new county or voluntary schools to be established to provide both primary and secondary education) shall apply where it is proposed that an existing school maintained or to be maintained by a local education authority should provide both primary and secondary education, and accordingly in subsection (1) of that section—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/17/section/2/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/17/section/2/a" id="section-2-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>for the words from “Where a local education authority intend to establish a new county school” to “for that purpose” there shall be substituted the words “Where proposals with respect to a school maintained or to be maintained by a local education authority are submitted” ; and</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/17/section/2/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/17/section/2/b" id="section-2-b"><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>for the word “established” in paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the words “a school”.</Text></P3para></P3></P1para></P1></P1group></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="c674248" Type="F"><Para><Text>Act repealed (1.11.1996) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1996/56" id="c00001" Year="1996" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="56">1996 c. 56</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00002" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1996/56/section/582/2" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-582-2">ss. 582(2)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00003" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1996/56/section/583/2" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-583-2">583(2)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00004" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1996/56/schedule/38/part/I" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="schedule-38-part-I">Sch. 38 Pt. I</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00005" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1996/56/schedule/39" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="schedule-39">Sch. 39</CitationSubRef> (with <CitationSubRef id="c00006" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1996/56/section/1/4" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-1-4">ss. 1(4)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00007" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1996/56/section/561" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-561">561</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00008" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1996/56/section/562" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-562">562</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00009" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1996/56/schedule/39" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="schedule-39">Sch. 39</CitationSubRef>)</Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c674268" Type="C"><Para><Text>The text of s. 2 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.</Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c674269" Type="M"><Para><Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1964/82" id="c00057" Year="1964" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="82">1964 c. 82</Citation>. </Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>