{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-schools-and-further-and-higher-education-regulations-1989/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-schools-and-further-and-higher-education-regulations-1989/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/351",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Schools and Further and Higher Education) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-schools-and-further-and-higher-education-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Schools and institutions to which the Regulations apply",
  "text": "(1) Except where the context otherwise requires, in these Regulations–\n(a) a reference to a school is a reference to a school maintained by a local education authority, a special school not so maintained or a grant-maintained school;\n(b) subject to paragraph (2) below, a reference to a further or higher education institution is a reference to an institution providing further education or higher education (or both) maintained by a local education authority or to one not so maintained which is designated by or under Schedule 1 as an institution substantially dependent for its maintenance on assistance from local education authorities or on grants under section 100(1)(b) of the Education Act 1944;\n(c) a reference to a PCFC institution is a reference to an institution treated as within the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council funding sector by virtue of section 132(6) of the Education Reform Act 1988;\n(d) a reference to an institution, without qualification, is a reference to a further or higher education institution or a PCFC institution.\n(2) Part III of these Regulations does not apply to an institution in Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1944 c. 31, amended by section 213(3) of the Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am (W) (1.1.2002)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2001/3708",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Schools and Further and Higher Education) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/692",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Schools and Further and Higher Education) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/571",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Hazardous Equipment and Materials) (England) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/571",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Hazardous Equipment and Materials) (England) Regulations 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/351/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:48:33.051878+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."
}