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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levelling-up-and-regeneration-act-2023-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provision-regulations-2024/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levelling-up-and-regeneration-act-2023-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provision-regulations-2024/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1000",
  "legislation_title": "The Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levelling-up-and-regeneration-act-2023-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provision-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2024.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023;\n“the 2006 Act” means the Childcare Act 2006;\n“the commencement date” means 1st November 2024.\n(3) In these Regulations the following terms have the meaning given by section 98 (interpretation of Part 3) of the 2006 Act—\n(a) “the Chief Inspector”;\n(b) “childcare”;\n(c) “childminder agency”;\n(d) “domestic premises”;\n(e) “early years childminder”;\n(f) “early years childminder agency”;\n(g) “early years childminding”;\n(h) “early years provider”;\n(i) “early years provision”;\n(j) “later years childminder”;\n(k) “later years childminder agency”;\n(l) “later years childminding”;\n(m) “later years provider”;\n(n) “later years provision”.\n(4) In these Regulations, the following terms are to be construed in accordance with section 32 (maintenance of the two childcare registers) of the 2006 Act—\n(a) “the early years register”;\n(b) “Part A of the general childcare register”;\n(c) “Part B of the general childcare register”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c. 21 (“the 2006 Act”)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition of Chief Inspector was amended by paragraph 117 of Schedule 14 to the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The definition of childminder agency was inserted by paragraph 62(2)(a) of Schedule 4 to the Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6) (“the 2014 Act”)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "The definition of early years childminder agency was inserted by paragraph 62(2)(b) of Schedule 4 to the 2014 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "The definition of later years childminder agency was inserted by paragraph 62(2)(c) of Schedule 4 to the 2014 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Section 32 was amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the 2014 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1000/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:26:05.481128+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."
}