{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-child-measurement-programme-regulations-2008/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-child-measurement-programme-regulations-2008/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/3080",
  "legislation_title": "The National Child Measurement Programme Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-child-measurement-programme-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Child Measurement Programme Regulations 2008 and shall come into force on 5th January 2009.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the National Health Service Act 2006;\n“height measure” means a stadiometer on which a person stands to be measured by means of a vertical rule and a sliding horizontal rod or paddle;\n“the National Child Measurement Programme” means the annual programme under which Primary Care Trusts weigh and measure children in schools;\n“parent” in relation to a relevant child includes any person who has parental responsibility for, or has care of, the child and, in determining whether a person has care of the child, any absence of the child at a hospital or boarding school and any other temporary absence shall be disregarded;\n“parental responsibility” has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Children Act 1989;\n“process” and “processed” are to be interpreted in accordance with the meaning of “processing” in section 1(1) of the Data Protection Act 1998;\n“reception year” means the school year in which the majority of the children are aged either 4 or 5 years;\n“relevant child” means a child in the reception year or year 6;\n“relevant health professional” means a registered medical practitioner or a registered nurse;\n“scales” means an electronic device on which a person stands to be weighed;\n“school year” has the same meaning as in section 579(1) of the Education Act 1996; and\n“year 6” means the school year in which the majority of the children are aged either 10 or 11 years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c.41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1998 c.29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1996 c.56."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3080/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:21:11.797950+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."
}