{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-baseline-assessment-wales-regulations-1999/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-baseline-assessment-wales-regulations-1999/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1188",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Baseline Assessment) (Wales) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-baseline-assessment-wales-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations–\n“the Act” means the Education Act 1997;\n“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996;\n“accredited” in relation to a baseline assessment scheme means such a scheme when it has been accredited by a designated body in accordance with section 16(2) of the Act;\n“appropriate authority” has the meaning given to it by paragraph 1 of the Schedule to these regulations;\n“baseline assessment” means, in respect of a pupil at a maintained primary school, an assessment carried out in accordance with the baseline assessment scheme adopted for the school;\n“compulsory school age” has the meaning given to it by section 8 of the 1996 Act;\n“Welsh Office number” in relation to a school means the number assigned to the school by the Welsh Office;\n“first Key Stage” has the meaning given to it by section 355(1)(a) of the 1996 Act;\n“nursery class” means a class predominantly engaged in the provision of full-time or part-time education suitable for children who have not attained compulsory school age;\n“pupil” has the meaning given to it by section 3 of the 1996 Act;\n“reception class” has the meaning given to it by section 579(1) of the 1996 Act;\n“relevant stage” in relation to a pupil means the relevant stage of his education as prescribed in regulation 3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 56."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 8 is amended by section 52 of the Education Act 1997 with effect from 1st August 1998, by virtue of S.I. 1998/386."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1188/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:32.528694+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."
}