{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infant-class-sizes-admission-and-standard-numbers-england-regulations-2000/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infant-class-sizes-admission-and-standard-numbers-england-regulations-2000/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/180",
  "legislation_title": "The Infant Class Sizes (Admission and Standard Numbers) (England) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infant-class-sizes-admission-and-standard-numbers-england-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996;\n“the 1998 Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;\n“the Transitional Provisions Regulations” means the Education (Infant Class Sizes) (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1998;\n“Schedule 23” means Schedule 23 to the 1998 Act;\n“designated provisions” means the following provisions of the 1998 Act—\n(a) section 93(1) (admission authority not to fix an admission number which is less than the relevant standard number);\n(b) section 86(5) (prejudice not to be taken to arise from the admission to a maintained school of a number of pupils in a relevant age group which does not exceed the relevant standard number);\n“maintained school” means a community, foundation or voluntary school which contains an infant class;\n“qualifying prejudice” means prejudice to the provision of efficient education or the efficient use of resources by reason of measures required to be taken in order to ensure compliance with the duty imposed by section 1(6) of the 1998 Act;\n“revised admission number” means the number of children in a relevant age group whom it is intended to admit to a maintained school in the school year 2000–2001, in substitution for any admission number or (as the case may be) approved admission number previously fixed in accordance with section 93 of the 1998 Act or section 416 or 426 of the 1996 Act and which would otherwise apply.\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, words or expressions used in these Regulations set out in the first column of the following table shall have the meanings attributed to them by the provisions of the 1998 Act set out opposite thereto in the second column.\nadjudicator\nsection 25(3)\nadmission arrangements\nsection 88(2)\nadmission authority\nsection 88(1)\ninfant class\nsection 4\nrelevant age group\nsection 142(1)\nschool organisation committee\nsection 24(4)\nrelevant standard number\nsection 84(6)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 56."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/1947."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/180/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:19.197042+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."
}