{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/day-care-and-child-minding-national-standards-england-regulations-2001/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/day-care-and-child-minding-national-standards-england-regulations-2001/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1828",
  "legislation_title": "The Day Care and Child Minding (National Standards) (England) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/day-care-and-child-minding-national-standards-england-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Children Act 1989;\n“child care category” means each one of the five categories of child minding and day care provision set out in the national standards documents;\n“national standards” means the standards numbered 1 to 14 set out in each of the national standards documents;\n“national standards document” means a document published by the Department for Education and Employment listed in Schedule 1 to these Regulations;\n“parent”, in relation to a child, includes any person—\n(a) who is not his parent but who has parental responsibility for him, or\n(b) who has care of him;\n“person in charge” means in relation to day care the individual appointed by the registered person as the person in charge of providing actual day care on the premises;\n“registered person” means a person registered under Part XA of the Act as a child minder or a provider of day care;\n“supporting criteria” means the criteria set out in respect of each national standard in each national standards document.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1828/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:48:45.582082+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."
}