{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-inspection-regulations-1997/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-inspection-regulations-1997/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1966",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Inspection) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-inspection-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“bank holiday” means a day which is a bank holiday in England and Wales under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971;\n“school year” means the period of twelve months commencing on 1st August;\n“the 1996 Act” means the School Inspections Act 1996;\n“working day” means any day which is not a Saturday, a Sunday, a bank 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.\n(3) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference—\n(a) to the Schedule is to the Schedule to these Regulations;\n(b) to a numbered regulation is to the regulation in these Regulations bearing that number;\n(c) in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph in that regulation bearing that number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1966/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:58:31.712578+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."
}