{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/day-care-and-child-minding-suitability-england-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/day-care-and-child-minding-suitability-england-regulations-2005/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2297",
  "legislation_title": "The Day Care and Child Minding (Suitability) (England) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/day-care-and-child-minding-suitability-england-regulations-2005",
  "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“applicant” means a person whose application for registration for child minding or for providing day care is under consideration by the Chief Inspector;\n“registered person” mean a person who is registered under Part 10A of the Act for child minding or for providing day care;\n“relevant premises” means, in relation to an applicant or a registered person, any premises on which he is, or is likely to be child minding or providing day care;\n“relevant qualification” means a qualification evidencing competence, or level of competence, in an area that is, or areas that are, or in the opinion of the Chief Inspector may be, relevant to the assessment of A’s suitability;\n“social services functions” means functions which are social services functions for the purposes of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970;\n“suitable” means suitable, as the case may be—\n(a) to look after children under the age of eight; or\n(b) to be in regular contact with such children.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“A” being the person defined in section 79B(5A) of the Act as the person who is requested to consent to the disclosure."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1970 c. 39."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2297/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:55.404109+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."
}