Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These Regulations may be cited as the Nursery Education Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 1st September 1996.

In these Regulations—

• “the Act” means the Nursery Education and Grant-maintained Schools Act 1996;

• “grant” means a grant made under arrangements under section 1 of the Act;

• “grant period” has the meaning given in regulation 4(1);

• “instrument” means a document or other thing provided initially to a parent under any arrangements made under section 1 of the Act for the purpose of determining the amount of grant payable to any authority or person by the Secretary of State (or where the arrangements so provide by any other person exercising functions relating to grants); and

• “parent” includes any person seeking the provision of nursery education for a child.