{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-training-levy-reasonable-steps-regulations-2008/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-training-levy-reasonable-steps-regulations-2008/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1639",
  "legislation_title": "The Industrial Training Levy (Reasonable Steps) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-training-levy-reasonable-steps-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“1982 Act” means the Industrial Training Act 1982;\n“board” means an industrial training board;\n“independent research company” means a body carrying out research that—\n(i) is not funded wholly or mainly out of public funds; and\n(ii) does not have a proprietor, directors or shadow directors who are also members of the board appointing it to carry out the sample;\n“levy proposals” means levy proposals which a board intends to submit to the Secretary of State under section 11(1) of the 1982 Act;\n“necessary” means necessary to encourage adequate training in the industry to which the levy proposals relate;\n“prescribed organisation” means an organisation of the description specified in regulation 4;\n“public funds” means moneys provided by Parliament;\n“relevant person” means a person who is likely to be liable to make payments by way of levy in consequence of the levy proposals;\n“shadow director” means a person in accordance with whose directions or instructions the directors are accustomed to act, but a person is not to be regarded as a shadow director by reason only that the directors act on advice given by that person in a professional capacity; and\n“unrepresented person” means a relevant person who is not represented by a prescribed organisation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1639/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:29:24.660472+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."
}