{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-inspection-regulations-1997/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-inspection-regulations-1997/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Part of these Regulations—\n“action plan” means the written statement referred to, in the case of a school of any kind mentioned in section 11(2) of the 1996 Act, in section 17(1) of that Act or, in the case of any other school, in section 21(1) of that Act;\n“appropriate authority” shall be construed, in the case of a school of any kind mentioned in section 11(2) of the 1996 Act, in accordance with section 11(4) of that Act and, in the case of any other school, in accordance with section 11(5) of that Act;\n“Chief Inspector” means Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools in England;\n“inspection”, means an inspection of a school under section 10 of the 1996 Act;\n“inspection team” has the meaning set out in paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 3 to the 1996 Act;\n“member of the Inspectorate” means the Chief Inspector, any of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Schools in England and any additional inspector;\n“registered inspector” means an inspector registered under section 7(1) of the 1996 Act;\n“school”, where used without qualification, means a school to which section 10 of the 1996 Act applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1966/regulation/3",
    "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."
}