Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Schools Conducted by Education Associations) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st January 1994.

In these Regulations—

• “the Act” means the Education Act 1993;

• “the 1988 Act” means the Education Reform Act 1988^f1;

• “the relevant provisions of Chapter IV of Part I of the 1988 Act” means sections 52(1) and (2), 73(2) and (12), 79 to 91, 100, 101 and 104(1)(c) to (e) and (3) to (5) of that Act;

• “the relevant provisions of Part II of the Act” means sections 22(4) and 35, and Chapters III (other than sections 40, 41(5), 43(4), (7) and (9), 45(3) and 46(6)), VI (other than section 83(3) to (5)), VII (other than section 97) and X (other than section 151) of Part II of, and Schedule 4 to, that Act;

• “school”, save in the expression “grant–maintained school”, means a school which is or was before being conducted by an education association, a county or voluntary school; and

• “transfer date” has the meaning given to that expression in section 220(2) of the Act.