{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grants-for-education-support-and-training-regulations-1994/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/612",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Grants for Education Support and Training) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grants-for-education-support-and-training-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Education (Grants and Awards) Act 1984;\n“approved expenditure” means any expenditure which is approved as provided in regulation 3;\n“determine” means determine by notice in writing;\n“education authority” means a local education authority;\n“grant” means a grant in pursuance of these Regulations;\n“grant-maintained school” has the meaning assigned to it by sections 22(1) and 221(4) of the Education Act 1993;\n“head teacher mentor programme” means a programme of regional projects for the training of inexperienced head teachers whereby experienced head teachers give advice and assistance to support the professional development of inexperienced head teachers;\n“leisure time facilities” means facilities of a kind which education authorities are under the duty imposed by sections 41(3)(b) and 53(1) of the Education Act 1944 to secure are provided within their areas;\n“maintained school” means a school maintained by an education authority;\n“mentor” means an experienced head teacher giving advice and assistance under a head teacher mentor programme;\n“prescribed expenditure” means expenditure by an education authority for or in connection with any of the purposes specified in the Schedule hereto;\n“primary school”, “pupil” and “school” have the meanings assigned to them by section 114 of the Education Act 1944;\n“qualified teacher” means a person who, by virtue of the regulations relating to the employment of teachers from time to time in force under section 218 of the Education Reform Act 1988, is qualified to be employed as a teacher at a school of the kind described in subsection (12) of that section;\n“special educational needs” has the meaning assigned to it by section l56(1) of the Education Act 1993;\n“special school” has the meaning assigned to it by section 9(5) of the Education Act 1944;\n“technology college” means a voluntary aided school in respect of which a direction has been given under section 4A of the Education (No.2) Act 1986 and which is for the time being recognised as a technology college by the Secretary of State for Education;\n“voluntary aided school” has the meaning assigned to it by section 15 of the Education Act 1944; and\n“youth and community worker” means a person employed in connection with leisure-time facilities, other than those employed in a solely administrative, secretarial, clerical or manual capacity.\n(2) In these Regulations a reference to a regulation is a reference to a regulation contained therein, a reference in a regulation to a paragraph is a reference to a paragraph of that regulation, and a reference to the Schedule is to the Schedule to these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1944 c. 31; section 41 was substituted by section II of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13); and section 53(1) was amended by Part 1 of Schedule I to the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948 (c. 40), Schedule 7 to the Education Act 1980 (c. 20), and paragraph 54 of Schedule 12 to the Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition of “primary school” in section 114 was inserted by paragraph 13(2)(c) of Schedule 8 to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992; the definition of “pupil” was inserted by paragraph 13(2)(d) of Schedule 8 to that Act, and the definition of “school” was inserted by paragraph 13(2)(e) of Schedule 8 to that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The regulations currently in force are the Education (Teachers) Regulations 1993 (S.I.1993/543, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 218 was amended by paragraph 49 of Schedule 8 to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, by sections 290 and 291 of the Education Act 1993, and is prospectively amended on a date to be appointed by paragraph 136 of Schedule 19 to the Education Act 1993."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Section 9(5) was substituted by section 11(1)of the Education Act 1981 (c. 60).On a date to be appointed section 9(5) will be repealed and replaced by a new definition of “special school” in section 182(1) of the Education Act 1993."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1986 c. 61; section 4A was inserted by section 271(1) of the Education Act 1993."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Section 15 was amended by section 14 of, and Part II of Schedule 2 to, the Education Act 1946 (c. 50), paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1 to the Education Act 1980, paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to the Education (No.2) Act 1986, and section 282(2) of the Education Act 1993."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/612/regulation/2",
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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."
}