{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colleges-of-education-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colleges-of-education-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/309",
  "legislation_title": "The Colleges of Education (Scotland) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colleges-of-education-scotland-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings respectively assigned to them:–\n“academic board” means an academic board constituted under regulation 32;\n“college” means a college of education;\n“dissolved college” means a college dissolved by regulation 4;\n“governing body” means the governing body of a college;\n“governor” means a member of a governing body;\n“higher academic staff”, in relation to a central institution, means the principal or director, any vice-principal, deputy principal or deputy director, and any person holding a post equivalent to those posts, in the institution;\n“principal” means the principal of a college;\n“relevant receiving college” means the college to the governing body of which the staff, property, rights, liabilities and obligations of the governing body of a dissolved college are transferred under Part III;\n“students' representative council” means the students' representative council in a college, constituted under regulation 33;\n“vice-principal” means a vice-principal of a college.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a regulation, Part or Schedule is a reference to a regulation or Part of these Regulations or a Schedule to these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/1025",
      "affecting_title": "The Designation of Institutions of Higher Education (Scotland) Order 1992"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/309/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:31:49.435131+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."
}