{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursery-education-regulations-1996/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursery-education-regulations-1996/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2086",
  "legislation_title": "The Nursery Education Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursery-education-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Recipients of grant",
  "text": "Grants may be made (in addition to grants made to local education authorities under section 1(3)(a) of the Act) to—\n(a) local authorities which provide day care under section 18 of the Children Act 1989;\n(b) persons registered by a local authority under section 71(1)(b) of that Act (persons providing day care for children under 8 on non-domestic premises) or who would be required to be so registered if that Act applied to the Crown;\n(c) proprietors of independent schools to whom the Secretary of State has given notice of final registration of the school under section 70(1) of the Education Act 1944;\n(d) proprietors of independent schools the registration of which under that section is provisional, being schools providing nursery education for children with statements of special educational needs with the consent of the Secretary of State under section 189(5)(b) of the Education Act 1993 or with the approval of the authority by which the statements are maintained; and\n(e) proprietors of special schools not being maintained or grant-maintained special schools.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1944 c. 31. For the transfer of functions to the Secretary of State see, S.I. 1964/490, 1970/1536 and 1995/2986."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1993 c. 35."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/3117",
      "affecting_title": "The Nursery Education (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2086/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:37:14.291455+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."
}