Regulation 2 Interpretation

(1)

In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Education (Grants and Awards) Act 1984;
“approved expenditure” means any expenditure which is approved as provided in regulation 3;
“education authority” means a local education authority;
“grant” means a grant in pursuance of these Regulations;
“prescribed expenditure” means expenditure by an education authority for or in connection with any of the purposes specified in the Schedule hereto;
“primary school”, “pupil” and “school” have the meanings assigned to them by section 114 of the Education Act 1944^f1;
“racial group” has the meaning assigned to it by section 3(1) of the Race Relations Act 1976^f2; and
“special school” has the meaning assigned to it by section 9(5) of the Education Act 1944^f3.

(2)

In these Regulations a reference to a regulation is a reference to a regulation contained therein and a reference in a regulation to a paragraph is a reference to a paragraph of that regulation.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1944 c. 31; the definition of school in section 114 was amended by Schedule 7 to the Education Act 1980 (c. 20); the definition of by section 24(3) of the Education Act 1980; and the definition of by section 34(1) of the Education Act 1980 and by paragraph 7(3) of Schedule 12 to the Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40). With effect from 1st April 1993, a new definition of school is substituted by paragraph 13(2)(c) of Schedule 8 to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13) and the definitions of and in section 114 are deleted and replaced by new definitions in section 14(6) and 14(5) respectively of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992.
f2: 1976 c. 74.
f3: Subsection (5) of section 9 was substituted by section 11(1) of the Education Act 1981 (c. 60).