Paragraph 1 Interpretation

In these Articles—

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

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

• “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 special school to which these Articles apply by virtue of paragraph 2(1) and (3) of Schedule 11 to the 1993 Act;

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

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

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

• “school day” has the meaning assigned to it by section 65(1) of the Education (No. 2) Act 1986^f4; 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 term.

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

except for the purposes of Article 12, where it only includes such a person if he is an individual.

For the purposes of paragraph (2) above—

For the purposes of these Articles, any question whether a pupil belongs to the area of a particular local education authority shall be determined, as it would for the purposes of the Education Act 1980^f6, in accordance with regulations made under section 38(5) of that Act^f7.