{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-partnership-grant-regulations-1998/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-partnership-grant-regulations-1998/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1222",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Partnership Grant) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-partnership-grant-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996;\n“approved expenditure”—\n(a) in relation to partnership grant, means expenditure approved by the Secretary of State under regulation 3(2); and\n(b) in relation to research grant, means expenditure approved by him under regulation 5(2);\n“independent school” means a registered school (as defined in section 465 of the 1996 Act);\n“LEA” means a local education authority;\n“maintained school” means—\n(a) a school maintained by an LEA,\n(b) a special school not so maintained, or\n(c) a grant-maintained school.\n“partnership grant” means grant payable under regulation 3;\n“partnership project” has the meaning specified in regulation 3(1);\n“project organiser” means any person (including an LEA or the proprietor of an independent school but not the governing body of a maintained school) who the Secretary of State is satisfied is organising or intends to organise a partnership project;\n“research grant” means grant payable under regulation 5; and\nreferences to a “school” include (except where the context otherwise requires) references to the proprietor thereof and persons acting with the proprietor’s authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1222/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:30:58.691099+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."
}