{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-schools-finance-regulations-1992/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-schools-finance-regulations-1992/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/555",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Finance) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-schools-finance-regulations-1992",
  "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;\n“the 1989 Regulations” means the Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Finance) Regulations 1989;\n“the 1990 Regulations” means the Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Finance) Regulations 1990;\n“the 1991 Regulations” means the Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Finance) Regulations 1991;\n“financial year” has the meaning assigned to it by section 235(1) of the Act, and references to “the financial year in question” are references to the financial year in respect of which the determination of maintenance grant is made under these Regulations; and\n“school” means a grant-maintained school (within the meaning of the Act) situated in England.\n(2) 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\nsection 33(4)(b)\nallocation formula\nsection 38(2)\ncapital grants\nsection 79(3)(b)\nchange in the characteristics of the school\nregulation 5(8)\ndelegated budget\nsection 33(6)(b)\nformer maintaining authority\nsections 74(8) and 104(1)(i) and (6)\ngeneral schools budget\nsection 33(4)(a)\nincorporation date\nsection 104(3)\nmaintenance grant\nsection 79(1)\nrelevant date\nregulation 17(1)\nrelevant expenditure\nregulation 15(5)\nscheme\nsection 51(2)(a)\nschool’s budget share\nsection 51(2)(b)\nspecial purpose grants\nsection 79(3)(a).\n(3) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to—\n(a) a numbered part, regulation or Schedule is a reference to the part, 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": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1287."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/549, amended by S.I. 1990/2279 and S.I.1991/353."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/353."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/1095",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Finance) (Amendment) Regulations 1992"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/555/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:26:55.087885+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."
}