# The Education (School Performance Targets) (England) Regulations 1998, Regulation 2: Interpretation


(1) In these Regulations—
“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996;
“the 1997 Act” means the Education Act 1997;
“designated school” means a school to which—
(a) regulation 3 applies, and
(b) there are normally admitted pupils who are in the final year of the second key stage;
“GCSE” means General Certificate of Secondary Education;
“GNVQ” means a General National Vocational Qualification;
“level 4” means level 4 of the National Curriculum level scale as determined by the results of NC tests;
“NC tests” means National Curriculum tests administered to second key stage pupils for the purpose of assessing the level of attainment which they have achieved in English or mathematics, being tests laid down in provisions made by the Secretary of State under the appropriate order made under section 356(2) of the 1996 Act in force when those tests are administered;
“performance targets”, in relation to a school, means the targets which a governing body are required to set by virtue of regulation 3 or 4 (or both);
“pupils' attainment results” has the meaning specified in regulation 6(5);
“relevant school year” means the school year in relation to which a school’s annual report is published;
“school” means a maintained school within the meaning of section 19(3) of the 1997 Act;
“school’s annual report”, in relation to a school, means the report to parents which the governing body are required to prepare and publish for every school year by virtue of the school’s Articles of Government;
“second key stage pupils” means pupils who are in the second key stage referred to in section 355(1)(b) of the 1996 Act;
“vocational qualification” means—
(a) a Part One GNVQ,
(b) an Intermediate GNVQ,
(c) a Foundation GNVQ, or
(d) a GNVQ Language Unit,
awarded by—
(i) the EDEXCEL Foundation,
(ii) the City and Guilds of London Institute,
(iii) the Royal Society of Arts Examination Board,
(iv) the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, or
(v) Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations,
and approved by the Secretary of State under section 400 of the 1996 Act or section 37 of the 1997 Act.
(2) Any reference in these regulations to—
(a) a pupil achieving or being awarded a grade in a GCSE examination, or
(b) being awarded a vocational qualification,
by the end of any school year, shall be construed for the purposes of these Regulations as a reference to that pupil achieving or being awarded that grade or qualification in the school year in which he—
(i) takes that examination, or
(ii) (as the case may be) completes the course leading to the award of that qualification,
and irrespective of whether the decision to award the grade or qualification is made in a later school year.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1532/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-performance-targets-england-regulations-1998/regulation-2
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