{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-information-as-to-provision-of-education-england-regulations-1994/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1256",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Information as to Provision of Education) (England) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-information-as-to-provision-of-education-england-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“capacity” means capacity calculated in accordance with the Schedule to these Regulations;\n“Funding Authority” means the Funding Agency for Schools;\n“relevant areas of the school premises” means those areas to which a pupil would ordinarily have access other than washroom facilities;\n“registered pupil” does not include a pupil in a nursery class;\n“relevant education” means the kind (that is primary or secondary) or kinds of education to which an order under section 12(1)(a) or (b) of the Education Act 1993 relates;\n“school year” means a period of twelve months beginning on 1st September unless the school has a term beginning in August, in which case it means a period of 12 months beginning on 1st August;\n“surplus places” means the number of places, if any, by which the number equal to the capacity for the school (as calculated in accordance with Regulation 7 and the Schedule to these Regulations) exceeds the total number of registered pupils at the school;\n“teaching accommodation” means accommodation provided for teaching purposes; and\n“washroom facilities” means a room containing a water closet and washbasin which are suitable for use by a pupil in a wheelchair.\n(2) References in these Regulations to the discontinuance of a school maintained by a local education authority, are references to that authority ceasing to maintain the school and references to the discontinuance of a grant-maintained school, are references to the school being discontinued in accordance with the provisions of Chapter VIII of Part II of the Education Act 1993.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1256/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:33:45.580536+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."
}