{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-voluntary-registration-regulations-2007/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-voluntary-registration-regulations-2007/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/730",
  "legislation_title": "The Childcare (Voluntary Registration) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-voluntary-registration-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Childcare Act 2006;\n“enhanced criminal record certificate” means an enhanced criminal record certificate issued under section 113B of the Police Act 1997;\n“harm” has the same meaning as in section 31(9) of the Children Act 1989;\n“home child-carer” means an individual who—\n(a) cares for a child for a parent (“P1”), or\n(b) in addition to that work, cares for another child for a different parent (“P2”),\nand whose work consists (in a case within paragraph (a)) of caring for the child wholly or mainly in P1’s home or (in a case within paragraph (b)) of caring for the children wholly or mainly in P1’s home or P2’s home or both;\n“manager” means—\n(a) where the applicant is an individual, the applicant or (if the applicant employs staff) the individual who will be managing the early years provision or later years provision;\n(b) where the applicant is a partnership, a body corporate or any unincorporated association other than a partnership, the individual who will be managing the early years provision or later years provision;\n“nominated individual”, in relation to an applicant which is a partnership, a body corporate or any unincorporated association other than a partnership, means a partner, director, secretary or other officer who is responsible for supervising the management of the childcare;\n“parent” includes a person who is not a parent of the child but who has parental responsibility for the child, and a person who is a relative of the child;\n“registered person” means a person providing early years provision or later years provision who is registered under Chapter 4 of Part 3 of the Act;\n“relative”, in relation to a child, means a grandparent, aunt, uncle, brother or sister (whether of the full blood or half-blood or by marriage or civil partnership) or a step-parent.\n(2) In these Regulations, except in regulations 4(2) and 6(2), any reference to providing childminding or childcare includes a reference to childminding or childcare that is to be provided.\n(3) In these Regulations any reference to employing a person includes employing a person whether or not for payment and allowing a person to work as a volunteer, and references to a person being employed shall be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c.50; section 113B was inserted by section 163(2) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c.15)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1989 c.41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/730/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:58:32.489811+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."
}