{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-groups-of-grantmaintained-schools-regulations-1994/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-groups-of-grantmaintained-schools-regulations-1994/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1041",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Groups of Grant–maintained Schools) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-groups-of-grantmaintained-schools-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations–\n“the 1993 Act” means the Education Act 1993;\n“departing school” means a school in a group in respect of which procedures have been initiated for the school to leave the group and not terminated (as initiated on that occasion);\n“foundation school” means a grant–maintained school–\n(a) which was a voluntary school immediately before it became grant– maintained, or\n(b) which was established in pursuance of proposals published under section 49 of the 1993 Act;\n“grant–maintained school” includes a grant–maintained special school and references to “grant–maintained status” shall be construed accordingly;\n“group” means a group of two or more grant–maintained schools conducted by a single governing body;\n“hospital special school” means a maintained special school established in a hospital;\n“maintained special school” means a special school maintained by a local education authority;\n“participating school” means a school named in a motion or resolution or the subject of a ballot in respect of which the formation of a group with other participating schools is being considered;\n“relevant age group” has the same meaning as in section 155(4) of the 1993 Act;\n“relevant particulars” means the particulars specified in paragraph 4(1)(d) of Schedule 2 to these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1041/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:34:47.696354+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."
}