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3. In section 572 of the Education Act 1996(1) (service of notices and other documents) at the end there is inserted –
“(2) But such a document may not be served or given in an electronic communication to a person as a parent unless —
(a)the person consents in writing to the receipt of documents of the kind in question from the sender in an electronic communication sent to a specified number or address, and
(b)the communication is sent to the number or address in question.
(3) In subsection (2), “electronic communication” has the same meaning as in the Electronic Communications Act 2000.”
1996 c. 56. Section 572 was amended by section 23(2) of the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003 c. 38.
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