{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2006/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2006/section-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/21",
  "legislation_title": "Childcare Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2006",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part 1",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“childcare” has the meaning given by section 18;\n“early years provision” has the meaning given by section 20;\n...\n...\n“young child” has the meaning given by section 19.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 21 repealed (31.3.2010) by The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Consequential Amendments) (England and Wales) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1080), art. 1(3)(b)(c), Sch. 1 para. 107, Sch. 2 Pt. 3 (with art. 2(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 21 in force at 20.12.2006 by S.I. 2006/3360, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/21/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:29.405916+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."
}