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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-exclusion-from-school-prescribed-periods-regulations-1999/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-exclusion-from-school-prescribed-periods-regulations-1999/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1868",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Exclusion from School) (Prescribed Periods) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-exclusion-from-school-prescribed-periods-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations–\n“the 1998 Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;\n“the relevant person” means–\n(a) in relation to a pupil under the age of 18, a parent of his; and\n(b) in relation to a pupil who has attained that age, the pupil himself;\n“school day”, in relation to a school, means any day on which at that school there is a school session;\n“school” means a maintained school within the meaning of section 20(7) of the 1998 Act.\n(2) Where Regulations under paragraph 4 of Schedule 11 to the 1998 Act require the governing body of a school to establish a discipline committee, references in these Regulations to the governing body shall be construed as references to their discipline committee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1868/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:20:32.831709+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."
}