{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-inspection-england-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-inspection-england-regulations-2005/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2038",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Inspection) (England) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-inspection-england-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 2005 Act” means the Education Act 2005;\n“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;\n“inspector” in Part 3 of these Regulations means the person conducting the inspection;\n“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;\n“school year” means the period of 12 months commencing on 1st August;\n“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\nany 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.\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "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)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/170",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (School Inspection) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/170",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (School Inspection) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "appl (mods)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2039",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Pupil Referral Units) (Application of Enactments) (England) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2016/211",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2016"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2038/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:55:08.370217+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."
}