{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-charges-for-early-years-provision-regulations-2012/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-charges-for-early-years-provision-regulations-2012/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/962",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Charges for Early Years Provision) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-charges-for-early-years-provision-regulations-2012",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations prescribe circumstances for the purposes of section 451(2A) of the Education Act 1996 (“the Act”).\nSection 451 of the Act, which applies in relation to education provided at any maintained school for a registered pupil at the school, provides that where the education is provided for the pupil during school hours, no charge shall be made in respect of it.\nSection 451(2A) of the Act provides that regulations may prescribe circumstances in which the prohibition on charging may be lifted in relation to education which is early years provision. The circumstances prescribed in the Regulations are that the early years provision is not provided in pursuance of the duty imposed by section 7 of the Childcare Act 2006 (duty to secure prescribed early years provision free of charge), the early years provision is for a pupil who is below compulsory school age, and that the early years provision is not otherwise funded by the local authority in accordance with regulations made under section 47 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (determination of school’s budget share).\nAn impact assessment has not been produced for these Regulations as they have minimal impact on businesses, civil society organisations and the public sector.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/962/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:35:12.306757+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."
}