Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “the 1993 Teachers Regulations” means the Education (Teachers) Regulations 1993^f1;

• “the Act of 1993” means the Education Act 1993;

• “approval” means approval of a school for the purposes of section 189(1) of the Act of 1993 and “approved” in relation to such a school shall be construed accordingly;

• “boarding school” means a school which has boarders whether or not it also has day children, and “boarder” includes a child at a boarding school who is accommodated there during the week, but not at weekends, in the school term;

• “child with a statement” means a child for whom a statement is maintained under section 168 of the Act of 1993;

• “head of care” means a person who is in daily charge of the care and welfare of boarders;

• “hearing impaired” means deaf or partially hearing;

• “local authority” means a local authority acting in the discharge of their functions under any of the enactments specified in Schedule 1 to the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970^f2 (enactments conferring functions assigned to the social services committee) or, so long as an order under section 12 of that Act is in force, the Council of the Isles of Scilly;

• “non-maintained special school” means a school which is not maintained by a local education authority and is not a grant-maintained school or a grant-maintained special school, but which has been approved as a special school under section 188 of the Act of 1993 (including approval treated as given under subsection (3) of that section);

• “relevant local education authority” in relation to a child with a statement, means the local education authority by whom the statement is maintained; and

• “visually impaired” means blind or partially sighted.

Except where the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to a regulation or Schedule is a reference to a regulation contained herein or to a Schedule hereto, any reference in a regulation or Schedule to a paragraph is a reference to a paragraph of the regulation or Schedule, and any reference in a paragraph to a sub-paragraph is a reference to a sub-paragraph thereof.