{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-minding-and-day-care-applications-for-registration-regulations-1991/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-minding-and-day-care-applications-for-registration-regulations-1991/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1689",
  "legislation_title": "Child Minding and Day Care (Applications for Registration) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-minding-and-day-care-applications-for-registration-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires–\n“the Act” means the Children Act 1989;\n“full day care” means day care provided for children under the age of eight for a full working day in premises other than domestic premises;\n“person in charge” means in relation to day care where the applicant is not an individual, the person appointed as the person in charge of providing the actual day care by the applicant;\n“sessional day care” means day care provided for children under the age of eight for less than a full working day in premises other than domestic premises;",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/2129",
      "affecting_title": "The Child Minding and Day Care (Applications for Registration and Registration and Inspection Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1689/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:40:47.577657+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}