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<Text>The <Citation URI="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/32/contents" id="c00704" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2002" Number="32" SectionRef="contents">Education Act 2002</Citation> is amended as follows.</Text>
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<Text>In <Citation URI="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/32/section/133" id="c00705" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2002" Number="32" SectionRef="section-133">section 133</Citation> (requirement to be qualified), in <Citation URI="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/32/section/133" id="c00706" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2002" Number="32" SectionRef="section-133">subsection (6)</Citation>—</Text>
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<Text>omit “or” after <Citation URI="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/32/section/133" id="c00707" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2002" Number="32" SectionRef="section-133">paragraph (a)</Citation>;</Text>
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<Text>after <Citation URI="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/32/section/133" id="c00708" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2002" Number="32" SectionRef="section-133">paragraph (b)</Citation> insert </Text>
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<Text id="p10007">, or</Text>
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<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
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<Text>Academies of a description specified by the Secretary of State in regulations under this section.</Text>
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<Text>In <Citation URI="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/32/section/135A" id="c00709" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2002" Number="32" SectionRef="section-135A">section 135A</Citation><Citation URI="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/32/section/135A" id="c00710" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2002" Number="32" SectionRef="section-135A">(4)</Citation> (requirement to serve induction period: teachers in England), at the end of the definition of “relevant school” insert <InlineAmendment>“or Academies of a description specified by the Secretary of State in regulations under this section.”</InlineAmendment></Text>
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</P1></P1group></Pblock></Part></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary Type="I" id="key-0e6ff190ad908a394b5d99eaf83cde89"><Para><Text>S. 53  in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see <CitationSubRef id="n9e0b18871bdb53df" SectionRef="section-78-1-a" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2026/21/section/78/1/a" Operative="true">s. 78(1)(a)</CitationSubRef>(5)</Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>