{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grants-for-early-excellence-centres-england-regulations-1998/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1877",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Grants for Early Excellence Centres) (England) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grants-for-early-excellence-centres-england-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“approved expenditure” means any expenditure which is approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the payment of grant;\n“determine” means determine by notice in writing;\n“early excellence centre” means an institution for providing education and other services for children under compulsory school age (whether or not it also provides such services for other persons) participating in the Department for Education and Employment’s pilot programme for early excellence centres; and\n“grant” means a grant under these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1877/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:24:10.585060+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."
}