Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “the Act” means the Children Act 1989;

• “associate” means any person, other than a childcare provider—

  1. (a)

     looking after, or likely to be looking after, children on, or

  2. (b)

     living or employed or otherwise working on,

  any relevant premises;

• “authorised person” means a person authorised for any of the purposes of section 79U of the Act;

• “childcare provider” means a child minder or a day care provider and includes a person who was a childcare provider but who, at the time of any request for, or provision of, information pursuant to these Regulations, is not providing childcare; and “childcare” shall be construed accordingly;

• “early years development and childcare partnership” means a partnership established under section 119 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998^f1;

• “enforcement action” includes the serving of any notice, and the imposition of any requirement or condition, upon a childcare provider, any suspension of registration and any application pursuant to section 75 or section 79K to a justice of the peace (protection of children in an emergency);

• “local government area” has the meaning given in section 270 of the Local Government Act 1970^f2, save that the words “Greater London” shall be omitted for this purpose;

• “relevant premises” means, in relation to a childcare provider, any premises on which he is, or is likely to be, or was at a material time, providing childcare;

• “setting”, in relation to childcare, means the premises on which childcare takes place or, as the case may be, is intended to take place, or took place at a material time, together with any equipment and personnel associated with the provision of that childcare.