{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurseries-and-child-minders-regulation-act-1948-repealed-14th-october-1991/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurseries-and-child-minders-regulation-act-1948-repealed-14th-october-1991/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/11-12/53",
  "legislation_title": "Nurseries and Child-Minders Regulation Act 1948 (repealed 14th October 1991)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nurseries-and-child-minders-regulation-act-1948-repealed-14th-october-1991",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Short title, interpretation and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Nurseries and Child-Minders Regulation Act 1948.\n(2) In this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say:—\n“child” means a person who has not attained the upper limit of compulsory school age;\n“child life protection enactments” means the provisions of Part I of the Children Act 1958of the Foster Children Act 1980;\n“compulsory school age”, in England and Wales, has the same meaning as in the Education Act 1944, and in Scotland means school age as defined in the Education (Scotland) Act 1962;\n“hospital” has the same meaning as in section 128(1) of the National Health Service Act 1977 or, as respects Scotland, section 108(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;\n“local social services authority” means a council which is a local authority for the purposes of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970;\n“relative”, in relation to an infant, means a grandparent, brother, sister, uncle or aunt, whether of the full blood, of the half-blood or by affinity, and includes—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) where the infant is illegitimate, the father of the infant and any person who would be a relative of the infant within the meaning of this definition if the infant were the legitimate child of its mother and father.\n“school”, except in the expression “nursery school”, means an institution of which the sole or main purpose is the provision of education for children of compulsory school age.\n(3) References in this Act to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended by any subsequent enactment.\n(4) This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Children Act 1958 (c. 65), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words “of the Foster Children Act 1980” substituted (E.W.) (1.4.1981) for words from “of Part I” to “1958” by Foster Children Act 1980 (c. 6), Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), s. 17(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), Sch. 15 para. 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words substituted by National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29), Sch. 16 para. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Definition inserted by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 23 para. 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Definition substituted by Adoption of Children Act 1949 (c. 98), s. 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Para. (a) in the definition of “relative” repealed by Children Act 1975 (c. 72), Sch. 4 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1958 c. 65."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1980 c. 6."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1944 c. 31."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1962 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "1977 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M6",
      "text": "1978 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M7",
      "text": "1970 c. 42."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/53/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:22:43.292123+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."
}