# The Education (School Attendance Targets)(England) Regulations 2005, Regulation 2: Interpretation


(1) In these Regulations —
“absence” means an occasion when a relevant day pupil is recorded as absent from a school in accordance with the Education (Pupil Registration) Regulations 1995;
“the total possible attendances” means the number produced by multiplying the number of relevant day pupils at the school by the number of school sessions in the applicable period in that year;
“relevant day pupil” means a registered pupil of compulsory school age apart from a boarder;
“the applicable period” means the period starting with the beginning of a school year and finishing with the end of the school day falling on the Friday before the last Monday in May in that school year.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/58/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-attendance-targetsengland-regulations-2005/regulation-2
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