{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-inspections-regulations-2008/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-inspections-regulations-2008/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1729",
  "legislation_title": "The Childcare (Inspections) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-inspections-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Arrangements for inspection of independent schools",
  "text": "(1) The Chief Inspector is not required to inspect early years provision at an independent school if, by the relevant time—\n(a) that early years provision has been inspected by a body approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of section 49(4) of the 2006 Act, and\n(b) that approved body has prepared a report of the inspection which reports on the matters set out in section 50(1)(a) to (d) of the 2006 Act, and has sent a copy of that report to the Chief Inspector.\n(2) In paragraph (1), “the relevant time” means 2 months before the date by which the Chief Inspector would, but for regulation 5(1), be required to inspect the early years provision in accordance with regulation 3 or 4.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "By virtue of section 106 of the 2006 Act, “independent school” has the same meaning as in the Education Act 1996 (c.56)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/979",
      "affecting_title": "The Alternative Provision Academies and 16 to 19 Academies (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) (England) Order 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/979",
      "affecting_title": "The Alternative Provision Academies and 16 to 19 Academies (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) (England) Order 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1729/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:28:54.631239+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."
}