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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-special-schools-initial-governing-instruments-regulations-1994/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2104",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Grant-maintained Special Schools) (Initial Governing Instruments) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-special-schools-initial-governing-instruments-regulations-1994",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Articles—\n“the 1988 Act” means the Education Reform Act 1988;\n“the 1993 Act” means the Education Act 1993;\n“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;\n“funding authority” has the meaning assigned to it by section 5(1) of the 1993 Act;\n“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;\n“the Head Teacher” means the person appointed to be the head teacher or acting head teacher of the School;\n“registered”, in relation to parents or pupils, means shown in the register kept under section 80 of the Education Act 1944;\n“the School” means the school conducted by the Governing Body;\n“school day” has the meaning assigned to it by section 65(1) of the Education (No. 2) Act 1986; and\n“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.\n(2) In these Articles, unless the context otherwise requires, “parent”, in relation to a pupil at the School, includes any person—\n(a) who is not a parent of his but who has parental responsibility for him, or\n(b) who has care of him,\nexcept for the purposes of Article 12, where it only includes such a person if he is an individual.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) above—\n(a) “parental responsibility” has the same meaning as in the Children Act 1989; and\n(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.\n(4) 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, in accordance with regulations made under section 38(5) of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1993 c. 35."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1944 c. 31; section 80 was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 12 to the Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1986 c. 61."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1989 c. 41, section 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1980 c. 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "The current regulations are the Education (Areas to which Pupils and Students Belong) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/2037, amended by 1990/361 and 1990/1653)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2104/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
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  },
  "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."
}