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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-schools-finance-regulations-1994/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/938",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Finance) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-schools-finance-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, except where the context otherwise requires—\n“the 1988 Act” means the Education Reform Act 1988;\n“the 1993 Act” means the Education Act 1993;\n“financial year in question” means the financial year beginning in 1994;\n“local education authority” in relation to any school and financial year means the local education authority for the area in which the school is situated;\n“preceding financial year” means the financial year beginning in 1993;\n“pupils with statements of special educational needs” means pupils for whom statements of their special educational needs are maintained under section 168 of the 1993 Act or, before that section comes into force, section 7 of the Education Act 1981;\n“the 1993 Regulations” means the Education (Grant-maintained Schools) (Finance) Regulations 1993;\n“school” means a grant-maintained school situated in England the governing body of which was incorporated under Chapter II or IX of Part II of the 1993 Act.\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 regulations being references to regulations of these Regulations—\naggregated budget\nsection 33(4)(b) of the 1988 Act\nallocation formula\nsection 38(2) of the 1988 Act\ncapital grants\nsection 83(1) of the 1993 Act\nchange in the characteristics of the school\nregulation 6(10)\ndate of implementation of the proposals\nsection 37(2) of the 1993 Act\ndelegated budget\nsection 33(6)(b) of the 1988 Act\nfinancial year\nsection 305(1) of the 1993 Act\ngeneral schools budget\nsection 33(4)(a) of the 1988 Act\nmaintenance grant\nsection 81(1) of the 1993 Act\nrelevant authority\nregulation 22(2)\nrelevant date\nregulation 17(7)\nrelevant expenditure\nregulation 15(3)\nrelevant percentage\nregulation 9(2)\nscheme\nsection 51(2)(a) of the 1988 Act\nschool’s budget share\nsection 51(2)(b) of the 1988 Act\nsecondary schools total\nregulation 22(2)\nspecial purpose grants\nsection 82(1) of the 1993 Act.\n(3) In these Regulations references to a school becoming grant-maintained are references to a school acquiring grant-maintained status under Chapter II or IX of Part II of the 1993 Act.\n(4) For the purposes of these Regulations, a school becomes a grant-maintained school on the date of implementation of the proposals in respect of the school under Chapter II or IX of Part II of the 1993 Act.\n(5) 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": "1988 c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1981 c. 60."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/568, amended by S.I. 1993/843."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 51(2)(a) is amended by section 274(4) of the Education Act 1993."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/938/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:35:40.310955+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."
}