{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-performances-and-activities-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-performances-and-activities-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1757",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Performances and Activities) (Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-performances-and-activities-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1933 Act” (“Deddf 1933”) means the Children and Young Persons Act 1933;\n“the 1963 Act” (“Deddf 1963”) means the Children and Young Persons Act 1963;\n“activity” (“gweithgaredd”) means taking part in a sport, or working as a model in the circumstances specified in section 37(1)(b) of the 1963 Act;\n“chaperone” (“hebryngwr”) has the meaning given in regulation 17(1);\n“day” (“diwrnod”) means a period of twenty-four hours beginning and ending at midnight and, for the purposes of regulation 30 and paragraph 13 of Part 2 of Schedule 2, any performance taking place after midnight and before the earliest permitted hour as defined in regulation 23 shall be deemed to have taken place before midnight;\n“education authority” (“awdurdod addysg”) has the meaning given by section 135(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980;\n“host authority” (“awdurdod lletyol”) means the local authority or, in Scotland, the education authority in whose area a performance or activity takes place;\n“licence holder” (“deiliad trwydded”) means the person to whom a licence is granted by the licensing authority;\n“licensing authority” (“awdurdod trwyddedu”) means the local authority to which the application for a licence is made and which grants the licence;\n“parent” (“rhiant”) means a person who has parental responsibility, as defined in section 3 of the Children Act 1989, for the child in question;\n“rehearsal” (“ymarfer”) means, other than for the purposes of paragraph 15 of Part 2 of Schedule 2, any rehearsal for, or preparation for, a performance, being a rehearsal which takes place on the day of the performance or during the period beginning with the first and ending with the last performance;\n“school leaving age” (“oedran gadael ysgol”) means the age at which a person ceases to be of compulsory school age in accordance with section 8(3) of the Education Act 1996; and\n“week” (“wythnos”) means a period of seven days beginning with the day on which the first performance or activity for which the licence is granted takes place or any seventh day after that.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 44. This definition was amended by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39), Schedule 13, paragraph 118(9)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1996 c. 56."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1757/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:32:52.473658+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."
}