School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (Chapter 13).

This Act, which aims at improving the school system in England and Wales, also concerns school meals. It sets nutritional standards for school lunches and extends functions of local education authorities concerning school lunches. Regulations may prescribe nutritional standards, or other standards for nutritional requirements, which (subject to such exceptions as may be school lunches. provided for by or under the regulations) are to be complied with in connection with the provision of school lunches for registered pupils at schools maintained by local education authorities. Where a local education authority or the governing body provide school lunches for registered pupils at such a school, they shall secure that any applicable provisions of regulations under this section are complied with. A local education authority shall, if requested to do so by or on behalf of any registered pupils at a school maintained by the authority, provide school lunches for those pupils; but the authority shall not be required to provide a school lunch— (a) where in the circumstances it would be unreasonable for them to do so, or (b) where the pupil in question has not attained compulsory school age and is being provided with part-time education