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Paragraph 1 Interpretation

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(1)

In these Articles—

  • “the 1988 Act” means the Education Reform Act 1988f1;

  • “the 1993 Act” means the Education Act 1993f2;

  • “approved admission number” shall be interpreted in accordance with section 149 of the 1993 Act;

  • “the Clerk to the Governing Body” means the person appointed by the Governing Body in accordance with the instrument of government to be the clerk to the Governing Body;

  • “funding authority” has the meaning assigned to it by section 5(1) of the 1993 Act;

  • “the Governing Body” means the governing body of any grant-maintained school to which these Articles apply by virtue of sections 56(1) and (3) of the 1993Act;

  • “the Head Teacher” means the person appointed to be the head teacher or acting head teacher of the School;

  • “relevant age group” shall be interpreted in accordance with section 155(4) of the 1993 Act;

  • “registered”, in relation to parents or pupils, means shown in the register kept under section 80 of the Education Act 1944f3; and

  • “the School” means the school conducted by the Governing Body; and

  • “school holidays” includes any school holidays which are not less than five days in length and which take place during the course of a school term.

(2)

In these Articles, unless the context otherwise requires, “parent”, in relation to a pupil at the School, includes any person —

(a)

who is not a parent of his but who has parental responsibility for him, or

(b)

who has care of him,

except for the purposes of Article 14, where it only includes such a person if he is an individual.

(3)

For the purposes of paragraph (2) above—

(a)

“parental responsibility” has the same meaning as in the Children Act 1989f4; and

(b)

in determining whether an individual has care of a pupil, any absence of the pupil at a hospital or boarding school and any other temporary absences shall be disregarded.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

1988 c. 40.

f2

1993 c. 35.

f3

1944 c. 31; section 80 was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 12 to the Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40).

f4

1989 c. 41, section 3.