{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/section-576",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/section-576.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/56",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996",
  "path": "section/576",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "576",
  "heading": "Meaning of “parent”.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, “parent”, in relation to a child or young person, includes any person—\n(a) who is not a parent of his but who has parental responsibility for him, or\n(b) who has care of him,\nexcept that in section 499(8) it only includes such a person if he is an individual.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In subsection (1) “parental responsibility” has the same meaning as in the Children Act 1989.\n(4) In determining for the purposes of subsection (1) whether an individual has care of a child or young person, any absence of the child or young person at a hospital or boarding school and any other temporary absence shall be disregarded.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 576(1) substituted (1.9.1999) by 1998 c. 31, s. 140(1), Sch. 30 para. 180(a) (with ss. 138(9), 144(6)); S.I. 1999/2323, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 576(2) repealed (1.9.1999) by 1998 c. 31, s. 140(1)(3), Sch. 30 para. 180(b), Sch.31 (with ss. 138(9), 144(6)); S.I. 1999/2323, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 576 excluded (1.1.2014) by The Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2094), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 18(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 576 applied (24.7.1998) by 1998 c. 31, ss. 142(10), 145(4) (with ss. 138(9), 144(6))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 576 applied (1.9.2001) by S.I. 2001/600, reg. 30(10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/56/section/576",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:40.627017+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."
}