{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-lay-members-of-appeal-committees-regulations-1994/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-lay-members-of-appeal-committees-regulations-1994/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1303",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Lay Members of Appeal Committees) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-lay-members-of-appeal-committees-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“appeal committee” means (as the case may require) an appeal committee constituted in accordance with Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Education Act 1980 or in accordance with the instrument of government of a grant-maintained school for the purposes of paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 6 to the 1993 Act;\n“appropriate authority” means (as the case may require):\n(a) the local education authority or the governing body of an aided or special agreement school required by section 7 of the Education Act 1980 or section 26 of the Education (No.2) Act 1986 to make arrangements for enabling appeals to be made to an appeal committee; or\n(b) the governing body of a grant-maintained school required by the articles of government for the school to make arrangements for appeals to an appeal committee. Duty to advertise.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1986 c. 61."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1303/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:33:24.555324+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."
}