{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-inspection-wales-regulations-2006/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-inspection-wales-regulations-2006/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2006/1714",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Inspection) (Wales) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-inspection-wales-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interpretation: Part 2",
  "text": "(1) In this Part of these Regulations—\n“action plan” (“cynllun gweithredu”) means, in the case of a maintained school, the written statement referred to in section 39; or, in the case of a non-maintained special school, section 42;\n“appropriate authority” (“awdurdod priodol”), in relation to a maintained school, means the school’s governing body or, if the school does not have a delegated budget, the local education authority (subject, however, to regulation 7(2));\n“Chief Inspector” (“Prif Arolygydd”) means Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales;\n“delegated budget” (“cyllideb ddirprwyedig”) has the same meaning as in section 49 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;\n“inspection” (“arolygiad”) means an inspection under Chapter 3 of Part 1 of the 2005 Act (including a section 28 inspection);\n“inspection team” (“tîm arolygu”) has the meaning given by paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 4;\n“maintained school” (“ysgol a gynhelir”) means a community, foundation or voluntary school, a community or foundation special school or a maintained nursery school;\n“member of the Inspectorate” “(aelod o'r Arolygiaeth”) means the Chief Inspector, any of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Education and Training in Wales and any additional inspector appointed under paragraph 2 of Schedule 2;\n“the National Assembly” (“y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol”) means the National Assembly for Wales;\n“non-maintained special school” (“ysgol arbennig nas cynhelir”) means a special school falling within section 28(2)(d);\n“registered inspector” (“arolygydd cofrestredig”) means an inspector registered under section 25;\n“school” (“ysgol”) (without more) means a school to which section 28 applies; and\n“section 28 inspection” (“arolygiad adran 28”) means an inspection under section 28.\n(2) References in this Part to a child who is looked after by a local authority have the same meaning as in section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989.\n(3) References in this Part to special measures being, or not being, required to be taken are to be read in accordance with section 44(1).\n(4) References in this Part to a school requiring, or not requiring, significant improvement are to be read in accordance with section 44(2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 41. Section 22(1) was amended by Schedule 5 to the Local Government Act 2000 (c. 22), section 2(2) of the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 (c. 35) and section 116 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002(c. 38)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "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/wsi/2006/1714/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:03:18.736326+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."
}