{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-government-regulations-1987/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-government-regulations-1987/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1359",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Government) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-government-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "Except where the context otherwise requires, in these Regulations–\n(a) “the 1986 Act” means the Education (No. 2) Act 1986;\n(b) any reference to a school is a reference to a school or new school which is, or will be, a county, voluntary or maintained special school;\n(c) any reference to a governing body, in relation to a school, is a reference to the governing body or temporary governing body of the school, whether that body was constituted before or after the coming into force on 1st September 1987 of sections 1 and 12 of the 1986 Act; and any reference to a governor is a reference to a member of such a governing body;\n(d) any reference to a governing instrument, in relation to a school, is a reference to the instrument of government or arrangement under which the governing body of the school is constituted; and\n(e) any reference to a regulation is a reference to a regulation of these Regulations, any reference in a regulation to a paragraph is a reference to a paragraph of that regulation and any reference in a paragraph to a sub-paragraph is a reference to a sub-paragraph of that paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1359/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:22:33.173119+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."
}