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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/56/section/486</dc:identifier><dc:title>Education Act 1996</dc:title><dc:description>An Act to consolidate the Education Act 1944 and certain other enactments relating to education, with amendments to give effect to recommendations of the Law
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ExtentStatus="Inherited" StartDate="2009-11-12" StartDateStatus="Inherited">s. 269(4)</ukm:Section></ukm:CommencementAuthority><ukm:InForceDates><ukm:InForce Prospective="true" Qualification=""/><ukm:InForce CommencingURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2010/303" CommencingClass="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Date="2010-04-01" Qualification="wholly in force" CommencingYear="2010" CommencingNumber="303"><ukm:CommencingProvisions><ukm:Section Ref="article-3" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2010/303/article/3">art. 3</ukm:Section><ukm:Section Ref="schedule-2" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2010/303/schedule/2">Sch. 2</ukm:Section></ukm:CommencingProvisions></ukm:InForce></ukm:InForceDates></ukm:UnappliedEffect><ukm:UnappliedEffect AffectingProvisions="s. 41" AffectingURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2026/21" Modified="2026-08-21T11:57:31Z" Type="inserted" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/effect/key-a678e51c4d8a6f4c4d75138433e07efd" AffectedURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1996/56" AffectedClass="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" AffectingClass="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" AffectingNumber="21" RequiresApplied="true" EffectId="key-a678e51c4d8a6f4c4d75138433e07efd" Row="165" AffectedNumber="56" AffectedYear="1996" AffectingEffectsExtent="S+A+M+E+A+S+A+F+F+E+C+T+E+D" AffectedProvisions="s. 436U and cross-heading" AffectingYear="2026"><ukm:AffectedTitle>Education Act 1996</ukm:AffectedTitle><ukm:AffectedProvisions><ukm:Section xmlns:err="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/error" Ref="section-436U" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1996/56/section/436U" err:Ref="Section missing in legislation" Missing="true">s. 436U</ukm:Section> and cross-heading</ukm:AffectedProvisions><ukm:AffectingTitle>Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026</ukm:AffectingTitle><ukm:AffectingProvisions><ukm:Section Ref="section-41" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2026/21/section/41">s. 41</ukm:Section></ukm:AffectingProvisions><ukm:CommencementAuthority><ukm:Section Ref="section-78-3" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2026/21/section/78/3">s. 78(3)</ukm:Section><ukm:Section Ref="section-78-5" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2026/21/section/78/5">(5)</ukm:Section></ukm:CommencementAuthority><ukm:InForceDates><ukm:InForce Applied="false" Prospective="true" Qualification=""/></ukm:InForceDates></ukm:UnappliedEffect><ukm:UnappliedEffect AffectedURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1996/56" RequiresApplied="true" AffectedYear="1996" AffectedProvisions="s. 447A and cross-heading" EffectId="key-652f4bbeebc045a9d8c1710b418e1275" AffectingYear="2026" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/effect/key-652f4bbeebc045a9d8c1710b418e1275" AffectingEffectsExtent="S+A+M+E+A+S+A+F+F+E+C+T+E+D" AffectedNumber="56" Row="336" Type="inserted" AffectingProvisions="Sch. 2 para. 2(6)" Modified="2026-08-21T11:57:31Z" AffectingNumber="21" AffectingURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2026/21" AffectingClass="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" AffectedClass="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct"><ukm:AffectedTitle>Education Act 1996</ukm:AffectedTitle><ukm:AffectedProvisions><ukm:Section xmlns:err="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/error" Ref="section-447A" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1996/56/section/447A" err:Ref="Section missing in legislation" Missing="true">s. 447A</ukm:Section> and cross-heading</ukm:AffectedProvisions><ukm:AffectingTitle>Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026</ukm:AffectingTitle><ukm:AffectingProvisions><ukm:Section Ref="schedule-2" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2026/21/schedule/2">Sch. 2 </ukm:Section><ukm:Section Ref="schedule-2-paragraph-2-6" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2026/21/schedule/2/paragraph/2/6">para. 2(6)</ukm:Section></ukm:AffectingProvisions><ukm:CommencementAuthority><ukm:Section Ref="section-78-3" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2026/21/section/78/3">s. 78(3)</ukm:Section><ukm:Section Ref="section-78-5" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2026/21/section/78/5">(5)</ukm:Section></ukm:CommencementAuthority><ukm:InForceDates><ukm:InForce Applied="false" Prospective="true" Qualification=""/></ukm:InForceDates></ukm:UnappliedEffect><ukm:UnappliedEffect AffectedClass="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" AffectingProvisions="Sch. 19 Pt. 1" Row="185" AffectedProvisions="s. 578(1)" AffectedExtent="E+W" Comments="This was a duplicate amendment made when omissions and repeal were listed separately. This was before Norman devised a method to ensure that this didn’t happened (cross-referring the omission and the repeal, with the blue brackets around the repeal). 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CommencingYear="2005" CommencingNumber="2034" Comments="the repeal entries relating to: the Education Act 1996; the School Inspections Act 1996; the Education Act 1997; the Learning and Skills Act 2000, except in relation to the repeal of section 81; the Education Act 2002; and the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, except in relation to the repeal of the provisions in Schedule 26"><ukm:CommencingProvisions><ukm:Section Ref="article-4" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2005/2034/article/4">art. 4</ukm:Section></ukm:CommencingProvisions></ukm:InForce><ukm:InForce CommencingURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/wsi/2006/1338" CommencingClass="WelshStatutoryInstrument" Date="2006-09-01" Qualification="for W." 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