# The Education (Grants for Education Support and Training) Regulations 1994, Regulation 2: Interpretation


(1) In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Education (Grants and Awards) Act 1984;
“approved expenditure” means any expenditure which is approved as provided in regulation 3;
“determine” means determine by notice in writing;
“education authority” means a local education authority;
“grant” means a grant in pursuance of these Regulations;
“grant-maintained school” has the meaning assigned to it by sections 22(1) and 221(4) of the Education Act 1993;
“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;
“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;
“maintained school” means a school maintained by an education authority;
“mentor” means an experienced head teacher giving advice and assistance under a head teacher mentor programme;
“prescribed expenditure” means expenditure by an education authority for or in connection with any of the purposes specified in the Schedule hereto;
“primary school”, “pupil” and “school” have the meanings assigned to them by section 114 of the Education Act 1944;
“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;
“special educational needs” has the meaning assigned to it by section l56(1) of the Education Act 1993;
“special school” has the meaning assigned to it by section 9(5) of the Education Act 1944;
“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;
“voluntary aided school” has the meaning assigned to it by section 15 of the Education Act 1944; and
“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.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/612/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-grants-for-education-support-and-training-regulations-1994/regulation-2
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