{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-sector-apprenticeship-targets-regulations-2017/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-sector-apprenticeship-targets-regulations-2017/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2017/9780111155400",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Sector Apprenticeship Targets Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-sector-apprenticeship-targets-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Headcount",
  "text": "(1) A public body’s headcount is equal to the number of persons who work for that public body in England.\n(2) A person works for a public body if the person—\n(a) works for the public body as a worker within the meaning given by section 230(3) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (employees and other workers);\n(b) is an apprentice working for the public body, whether the apprenticeship agreement is with the public body itself or with an apprenticeship training agency; or\n(c) works for the public body in the course of Crown employment or of service as a member of the naval, military or air forces of the Crown.\n(3) But a person coming within any of paragraphs (4) to (6) does not, for the purposes of these Regulations, work for that public body.\n(4) A person comes within this paragraph if the person works for the public body under a zero hours contract.\n(5) A person comes within this paragraph if the person works for the public body on behalf of a contractor.\n(6) A person comes within this paragraph if the person works under an apprenticeship agreement with a public body which is an apprenticeship training agency with a view to being supplied to another public body.\n(7) In this regulation—\n“Crown employment” has the meaning given by section A7(6) of the 2009 Act;\n“zero hours contract” has the same meaning as in section 27A of the Employment Rights Act 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "An apprenticeship training agency is an organisation approved as such by the Skills Funding Agency which supplies apprentices to host businesses and other organisations whilst itself remaining the apprentice’s employer throughout."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section A7 was inserted by paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 27A was inserted by section 153 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 18)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111155400/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:06:39.827814+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."
}