{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-excluded-days-of-detention-england-regulations-2007/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-excluded-days-of-detention-england-regulations-2007/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1304",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Excluded Days of Detention) (England) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-excluded-days-of-detention-england-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Days excluded from the definition of permitted days of detention",
  "text": "(1) A non-teaching day is not a permitted day of detention if it falls on a public holiday (whether or not it would be excluded from being a permitted day of detention under these Regulations but for this paragraph).\n(2) Subject to paragraph (5), a non-teaching day is not a permitted day of detention if it falls within paragraph (3) or (4).\n(3) A non-teaching day falls within this paragraph if it falls within a term and it—\n(a) precedes the first school day of the term;\n(b) falls during the half-term break; or\n(c) falls after the last school day of the term.\n(4) A non-teaching day falls within this paragraph if it does not fall within a term.\n(5) A non-teaching day falling within sub-paragraphs (3)(b) or (c) is not excluded from being a permitted day of detention if all of the following conditions are satisfied—\n(a) it is a weekday;\n(b) it is a day immediately following the day on which the school breaks up; and\n(c) it is not a public holiday.\n(6) For the purposes of paragraph (5) a reference to the day on which a school breaks up is a reference, as the case may be, to the last school day before a half-term break or the last school day of the term.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1304/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:54:48.097010+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."
}