Explanatory note

These regulations amend the Nursery Education Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2086). The amendments have the effect of defining nursery education for the purposes of the Nursery Education and Grant-Maintained Schools Act 1996 for the period until the end of March 1997 for the London Boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea, Wandsworth and Westminster and for Norfolk; and for the whole of England and Wales thereafter (regulation 3). They also add to the list of recipients of grant (regulation 4), make amendments in relation to inspection reports (regulation 5) and prescribe the intervals between inspections (regulation 6).