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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-independent-school-standards-england-regulations-2003/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1910",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Independent School Standards) (England) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-independent-school-standards-england-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996;\n“the 2002 Act” means the Education Act 2002;\n“city technology college” or “city college for the technology of the arts” means a school established under section 482 of the 1996 Act before 26th July 2002 which is not an Academy;\n“fire authority” means the statutory body defined in section 4 of the Fire Services Act 1947, in section 328 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 or in section 26 of the Local Government Act 1985;\n“school” means an independent school;\n“staff” means those people working at the school whether under a contract of employment, under a contract for services or as a volunteer; and\n“statement” means a statement of special educational needs made under section 324 of the 1996 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 56"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 482 was substituted by section 65 of the 2002 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1947 c. 41"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1999 c. 29"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1985 c. 51"
    }
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      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1924",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Miscellaneous Amendments relating to Safeguarding Children) (England) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/3168",
      "affecting_title": "The Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) (England) Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (9.2.2009)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/3253",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Independent School Standards) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2008"
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    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Education (Independent School Standards) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2007"
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    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1924",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Miscellaneous Amendments relating to Safeguarding Children) (England) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1924",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Miscellaneous Amendments relating to Safeguarding Children) (England) Regulations 2009"
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    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1924",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Miscellaneous Amendments relating to Safeguarding Children) (England) Regulations 2009"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1910/regulation/4",
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  "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."
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