{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-pupil-referral-units-management-committees-etc-england-regulations-2007/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-pupil-referral-units-management-committees-etc-england-regulations-2007/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/2978",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Management Committees etc.) (England) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-pupil-referral-units-management-committees-etc-england-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“authority”, in relation to a unit, means the local education authority by which the unit is maintained;\n“clerk to the committee” means a clerk appointed to a committee in accordance with the School Governance (Procedures) (England) Regulations 2003;\n“committee” means a management committee of a unit, or a group of units, established under these Regulations;\n“group of units” means two or more units managed by the same committee in accordance with regulation 4;\n“instrument of government” means an instrument of government of a unit, or a group of units, made in accordance with these Regulations;\n“member” means a member of a committee appointed or elected in accordance with these Regulations; and\n“unit” means a pupil referral unit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/1377, as amended by S.I. 2003/1916, 2004/450 and 2007/959, which apply in relation to units by virtue of regulation 21 of, and Schedule 3 to, these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2022/720",
      "affecting_title": "The Coasting Schools (England) Regulations 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "reg. 2 renumbered as reg. 2(1)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/1825",
      "affecting_title": "The Pupil Referral Units (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/1825",
      "affecting_title": "The Pupil Referral Units (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/1825",
      "affecting_title": "The Pupil Referral Units (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/1825",
      "affecting_title": "The Pupil Referral Units (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2978/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:42:42.116364+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."
}