Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations –

• “the Act” means the Education Reform Act 1988;

• “the 1981 Regulations” means the Education (School Information) Regulations 1981^f1;

• “education authority” means a local education authority;

• “relevant education authority”, in relation to a school, means the education authority by whom the school is maintained;

• “maintained school” has the meaning assigned to it by section 25(1) of the Act;

• “school prospectus” means a document of the kind referred to in paragraph (3) of Regulation 6 of the 1981 Regulations or (as the case may be) a document of a like nature which the governing body of a grant-maintained school are required by the school’s articles of government to publish;

• “governors' report” means a report of the kind referred to in section 30 of the Education (No.2) Act 1986^f2 or section 58(5)(j) of the Act (as the case may be).

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations and any reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph of that regulation bearing that number.