{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-temporary-exceptions-for-individual-pupils-regulations-1989/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-temporary-exceptions-for-individual-pupils-regulations-1989/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1181",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (National Curriculum) (Temporary Exceptions for Individual Pupils) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-national-curriculum-temporary-exceptions-for-individual-pupils-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations –\n“the 1981 Act” means the Education Act 1981;\n“the 1988 Act” means the Education Reform Act 1988;\n“general direction” and “special direction” mean directions given in the circumstances specified in regulation 3(1)(b)(i) or (ii) respectively, and “direction”, where used without qualification, means either a general or a special direction or both as the context may require;\n“maintained school” has the meaning given to it by section 25(1) of the 1988 Act;\n“operative date” means the date on which a direction comes into force, and “operative period” means the period specified in the direction during which it is to have effect; and\nreferences to a head teacher include references to his predecessor in office.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 60."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1181/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:40:53.214264+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."
}