Regulation 2 Interpretation

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

In these Regulations—

“the 2005 Act” means the Education Act 2005;
“inspection” in Part 2 of these Regulations means an inspection of a school under section 5 of the 2005 Act and in Part 3 of these Regulations means an inspection of a school under section 48 of the 2005 Act;
“inspector” in Part 3 of these Regulations means the person conducting the inspection;
“public holiday” means Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday within the meaning of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971;
“school year” means the period of 12 months commencing on 1^st August;
“working day” means any day which is not a Saturday, a Sunday, a public holiday or part of a holiday longer than a week taken by the school in question; and

any reference to a child who is looked after by a local authority shall have the same meaning as in section 22 of the Children Act 1989^f1.

(2)

Where these Regulations require an act to be done within a specified period from a specified date the period begins immediately after that date.

Annotations

f1: 1989 c. 41; section 22 was amended by section 107 and paragraph 19 of schedule 5 to the Local Government Act 2000 (c. 22); section 2 of the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 (c. 35); section 116(2) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38) and section 52 of the Children Act 2004 (c. 31).