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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/17/section/3</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Education Act 1968 (repealed 1.11.1996)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" RestrictStartDate="1993-10-01" RestrictEndDate="1996-11-01" Match="false"><Title> Approval or provision of school premises (miscellaneous amendments).</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/17/section/3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/17/section/3" id="section-3"><Pnumber>3</Pnumber><P1para><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/17/section/3/12" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/17/section/3/12" id="section-3-12"><Pnumber PuncAfter=")(2)">1</Pnumber><P2para><Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <CommentaryRef Ref="c674276"/></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/17/section/3/3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/17/section/3/3" id="section-3-3"><Pnumber><CommentaryRef Ref="c674277"/>3</Pnumber><P2para><Text>In the proviso to section 10(2) of the Education Act 1944, as set out in section 7(1) of the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948 (which proviso enables the Secretary of State in certain circumstances to permit school premises not to conform to the prescribed standards) for the words “having regard to shortage of labour or materials” in paragraph (c) there shall be substituted the words “having regard to the need to control public expenditure in the interests of the national economy”</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/17/section/3/4" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/17/section/3/4" id="section-3-4"><Pnumber><CommentaryRef Ref="c674278"/>4</Pnumber><P2para><Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</Text></P2para></P2></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="c674276" Type="F"><Para><Text><CitationSubRef id="c00070" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/17/section/1/2" SectionRef="section-1-2">Ss. 1(2)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00071" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/17/section/3/1/2" SectionRef="section-3-1-2">3(1)(2)</CitationSubRef> repealed by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/20" id="c00072" Year="1980" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="20" Title="Education Act 1980">Education Act 1980 (c.20, SIF 41:1)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00073" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/20/section/38/6" CitationRef="c00072" SectionRef="section-38-6">s. 38(6)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00074" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/20/schedule/7" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00072" SectionRef="schedule-7">Sch. 7</CitationSubRef></Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c674277" Type="C"><Para><Text>The text of s. 3(3) 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="c674278" Type="F"><Para><Text><CitationSubRef id="c00075" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/17/section/3/4" SectionRef="section-3-4">S. 3(4)</CitationSubRef> repealed (1.10.1993) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/35" id="c00076" Year="1993" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="35">1993 c. 35</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00077" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/35/section/286" CitationRef="c00076" SectionRef="section-286">ss. 286</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00078" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/35/section/307/3" CitationRef="c00076" SectionRef="section-307-3">307(3)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00079" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1993/35/schedule/21/part/II" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00076" SectionRef="schedule-21-part-II">Sch. 21 Pt. II</CitationSubRef>; <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1993/1975" id="c00080" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1993" Number="1975">S.I. 1993/1975</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00081" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1993/1975/article/9" CitationRef="c00080" SectionRef="article-9">art. 9</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00082" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1993/1975/schedule/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c00080" SectionRef="schedule-1">Sch. 1</CitationSubRef> Appendix</Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>