{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-variation-of-admission-arrangements-england-regulations-2002/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2898",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Variation of Admission Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-variation-of-admission-arrangements-england-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;\n“admission number” means the number of pupils in any relevant age group intended to be admitted in any school year as determined or, where the context requires, proposed to be determined by an admission authority in accordance with section 89A(1);\n“the relevant committee”, in relation to a maintained school, means the school organisation committee for the area of the local education authority who maintain the school;\n“statutory proposals” means proposals published under section 28.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered section or Schedule is a reference to that section of, or Schedule to, the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 89A was inserted by section 47(2) of the Education Act 2002 (c. 32)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 28 was amended by section 73 of the 2002 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/873",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Variation of Admission Arrangements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/873",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Variation of Admission Arrangements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2898/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:39:25.319803+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."
}