{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-parenting-contracts-and-parenting-orders-england-regulations-2007/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-parenting-contracts-and-parenting-orders-england-regulations-2007/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1869",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Parenting Contracts and Parenting Orders) (England) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-parenting-contracts-and-parenting-orders-england-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003;\n“the 2004 Regulations” means the Education (Parenting Orders) (England) Regulations 2004;\n“local authority” means a local education authority;\n“parenting contract” means a parenting contract under section 19 of the Act;\n“parenting order” means a parenting order under section 20 of the Act;\n“relevant behaviour” means behaviour of the kind mentioned in section 20(2A)(a) of the Act (as read with section 20(2B) of the Act); and\n“school day” has the meaning given by section 579(1) of the Education Act 1996.\n(2) For the purposes of these Regulations—\n(a) an exclusion begins on the first day to which the exclusion relates (and, in relation to an exclusion, ‘beginning’, and cognate expressions, are construed accordingly); and\n(b) where the pupil is excluded during the course of a school day but before the beginning of any afternoon session on that day, that day is to be treated for these purposes as the first day to which the exclusion relates.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/182."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1996 c. 56. There are amendments to section 579 not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/1172",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) (Local and Subordinate Legislation) Order 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1869/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:49:55.547318+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."
}