{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-minding-and-day-care-disclosure-functions-england-regulations-2004/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-minding-and-day-care-disclosure-functions-england-regulations-2004/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3136",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Minding and Day Care (Disclosure Functions) (England) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-minding-and-day-care-disclosure-functions-england-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Children Act 1989;\n“associate” means any person, other than a childcare provider—\n(a) looking after, or likely to be looking after, children on, or\n(b) living or employed or otherwise working on,\nany relevant premises;\n“authorised person” means a person authorised for any of the purposes of section 79U of the Act;\n“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;\n“early years development and childcare partnership” means a partnership established under section 119 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;\n“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);\n“local government area” has the meaning given in section 270 of the Local Government Act 1970, save that the words “Greater London” shall be omitted for this purpose;\n“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;\n“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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 31; section 119 has been amended by section 150 of the Education Act 2002, c. 32."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1970 c. 70; the definition of “local government area” was amended by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3136/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:14:46.385711+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."
}