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<Text>The <Citation URI="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/25/contents" id="c00652" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2008" Number="25" SectionRef="contents">Education and Skills Act 2008</Citation> is amended as follows.</Text>
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<Text> After <Citation URI="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/25/section/137" id="c00653" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2008" Number="25" SectionRef="section-137">section 137</Citation> insert—</Text>
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<Text>Regulations may provide for any relevant enactment to apply (with or without modifications) in relation to an independent educational institution (or an independent educational institution of a prescribed description) which is not an independent school as that enactment applies in England in relation to an independent school.</Text>
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<Text>“<Term>Relevant enactment</Term>” means an enactment made by or under any other Act passed before the end of the session in which the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 was passed, including any other Act as amended by or under that Act.</Text>
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<Text>In <Citation URI="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/25/section/166" id="c00654" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2008" Number="25" SectionRef="section-166">section 166</Citation><Citation URI="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/25/section/166" id="c00655" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2008" Number="25" SectionRef="section-166">(2)</Citation> (instruments subject to affirmative procedure)—</Text>
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<Text>omit the “or” at the end of <Citation URI="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/25/section/166" id="c00656" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2008" Number="25" SectionRef="section-166">paragraph (g)</Citation>;</Text>
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<Text>after <Citation URI="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/25/section/166" id="c00657" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2008" Number="25" SectionRef="section-166">that paragraph</Citation> insert—</Text>
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