{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-schools-finance-regulations-1989/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-schools-finance-regulations-1989/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1287",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Finance) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-schools-finance-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, except where the context otherwise requires —\n“the Act” means the Education Reform Act 1988; and\n“school” means a grant-maintained school (within the meaning of that Act).\n(2) The expression “expenditure of a capital nature” has the meaning assigned to it by Schedule 5 to these Regulations.\n(3) The following table shows provisions defining or otherwise explaining expressions used in these Regulations (other than provisions defining or explaining an expression used only in the same regulation or Schedule), references in the second column thereof to sections and regulations being, respectively, references to sections of the Act and regulations of these Regulations —\naggregated budget section 33(4)(b)\nallocation formula section 38(2).\ncapital grant section 79(3)(b).\nchange in the characteristics of the school regulation 3(8)\nfinancial year section 235(1).\nformer maintaining authority sections 74(8) and 104(1)(i) and (6).\ngeneral schools budget section 33(4)(a).\nincorporation date section 104(3).\nmaintenance grant section 79(1).\nrelevant expenditure regulation 3(3).\nscheme section 51(2)(a).\nschool’s budget share section 51(2)(b).\nspecial purpose grant sections 79(3)(a).\n(4) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to —\n(a) a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule in these Regulations so numbered; and\n(b) a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation or Schedule in which the reference appears.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1287/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:40:08.916733+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."
}