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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996-infant-class-sizes-modification-regulations-1998/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996-infant-class-sizes-modification-regulations-1998/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1948",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Act 1996 (Infant Class Sizes) (Modification) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996-infant-class-sizes-modification-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996;\n“the 1998 Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;\n“existing maintained school” means\n(a)any county or voluntary school, or\n(b)any grant-maintained school,\n(within the meaning of the 1996 Act) which contains an infant class;\n“infant class” has the meaning given by section 4 of the 1998 Act;\n“relevant time”, in relation to an existing maintained school, means any time after the coming into force of Regulations under section 1 of the 1998 Act by virtue of which any limit on class sizes is to apply in relation to the school.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (E.) (30.11.2003) by Education (Revocation of Spent Provisions) (England) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2694), reg. 1(2), Sch. Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.9.1998, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 56."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See, in relation to schools in England, the Education (Infant Class Sizes) (England) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1973); and, in relation to schools in Wales, the Education (Infant Class Sizes) (Wales) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1943). Both sets of Regulations come into force on 1st September 1998."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1948/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:38.449017+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."
}