# The Public Sector Apprenticeship Targets Regulations 2017, Regulation 2: Headcount


(1) A public body’s headcount is equal to the number of persons who work for that public body in England.
(2) A person works for a public body if the person—
(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);
(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
(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.
(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.
(4) A person comes within this paragraph if the person works for the public body under a zero hours contract.
(5) A person comes within this paragraph if the person works for the public body on behalf of a contractor.
(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.
(7) In this regulation—
“Crown employment” has the meaning given by section A7(6) of the 2009 Act;
“zero hours contract” has the same meaning as in section 27A of the Employment Rights Act 1996.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111155400/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-sector-apprenticeship-targets-regulations-2017/regulation-2
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.