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Regulation 2 Citation, commencement and interpretation

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

In these Regulations—

  • “the 1989 Act” means the Children Act 1989f1;

  • “the 2006 Act” means the Childcare Act 2006;

  • “early years inspection” means an inspection conducted by the Chief Inspectorf2 under section 49(2)(a) of the 2006 Act of early years provisionf3 in respect of which an early years provider is registered in the early years register;

  • “parent” includes a person who has parental responsibility for a child or who has care of a child;

  • “relevant local authority”, in relation to early years provision, means the English local authority for the area in which the provision is provided.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

1989 c. 41.

f2

For the definition of “the Chief Inspector”, see section 98(1) of the 2006 Act, as amended by paragraph 117 of Schedule 14 to the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c.40).

f3

See section 96 of the 2006 Act for the meaning of “early years provision”, “early years provider”, “early years childminding” and “early years childminder”.