Paragraph 1 Interpretation

In this Instrument—

• “the 1986 Act” means the Education (No. 2) Act 1986^f1;

• “the 1988 Act” means the Education Reform Act 1988^f2;

• “the 1993 Act” means the Education Act 1993^f3;

• “core governor” means an initial core governor or a governor appointed under paragraphs 2 to 7 or 12(2) of this Instrument;

• “foundation school” means a school which was a voluntary school immediately before it became grant-maintained or which was established in pursuance of proposals published under section 49 of the 1993 Act;

• “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 group of grant-maintained schools (including grant-maintained special schools) for which this Instrument is the instrument of government;

• “hospital special school” means a special school established in a hospital;

• “implementation date” means the date specified in the Proposals as the proposed date for their implementation;

• “incorporation date” means the date on which the Governing Body were incorporated;

• “initial core governor” means a person named as such in the Proposals;

• “registered”, in relation to parents or pupils, means shown in the register kept under section 80 of the Education Act 1944^f4;

• “special school” means a grant-maintained special school;

• “the School” means a school conducted by the Governing Body.

In this Instrument, references to “the Proposals” are to the proposals which led to the formation of a group of schools which are currently in the group and where the Secretary of State has modified the proposals, to the proposals as so modified.

In this Instrument, unless the context otherwise requires, “parent”, in relation to a pupil at the School, includes any person—

except for the purposes of paragraphs 6, 8, 9, and 10 below, where it only includes such a person if he is an individual.

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3) above—