# The Education (Grant-maintained Special Schools) (Initial Governing Instruments) Regulations 1994, Paragraph 1: Interpretation


(1) In these Articles—
“the 1988 Act” means the Education Reform Act 1988;
“the 1993 Act” means the Education Act 1993;
“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;
“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; 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.
(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 12, 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 1989; 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.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2104/schedule/2/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-grant-maintained-special-schools-initial-governing-instruments-regulations-1994/schedule-2/paragraph-1
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