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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-schools-provision-of-information-wales-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-schools-provision-of-information-wales-regulations-2003/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2003/3230",
  "legislation_title": "The Independent Schools (Provision of Information) (Wales) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-schools-provision-of-information-wales-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations —\n“the 1996 Act” (“Deddf 1996”) means the Education Act 1996;\n“the 2002 Act” (“Deddf 2002”) means the Education Act 2002;\n“application” (“cais”) means an application to the registration authority for the registration of an independent school made by the proprietor pursuant to section 160(1)(b) of the 2002 Act;\n“proprietor” (“perchennog”) has the same meaning as in section 579 of the 1996 Act;\n“school” (“ysgol”) means an independent school as defined by section 463 of the 1996 Act;\n“the register” (“y gofrestr”) means the register of independent schools kept by the registration authority under section 158(3) of the 2002 Act; and\n“registered school” (“ysgol gofrestredig”) means a school whose name is entered in the register.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a person employed at a school is a reference to a person carrying out work to which section 142 of the 2002 Act applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 56."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2007/947",
      "affecting_title": "The Independent Schools (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2016/211",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2009/2544",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Miscellaneous Amendments relating to Safeguarding Children) (Wales) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2009/2544",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Miscellaneous Amendments relating to Safeguarding Children) (Wales) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2009/2544",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Miscellaneous Amendments relating to Safeguarding Children) (Wales) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for reg. 2(2)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2009/2544",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Miscellaneous Amendments relating to Safeguarding Children) (Wales) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2021/217",
      "affecting_title": "The Independent Schools (Provision of Information) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2003/3230/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:09:50.823287+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."
}