{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-companies-regulations-2002/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-companies-regulations-2002/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2978",
  "legislation_title": "The School Companies Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-companies-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations–\n“the 2002 Act” means the Education Act 2002;\n“the 1998 Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;\n“the constitution of a school company” means the company’s memorandum and articles of association;\n“executive director” means a director who provides services to the company for remuneration or other benefits whether or not under a contract of service;\n“a further education institution” means—\n(a) an institution which has been designated by order of the Secretary of State under section 28 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992; or\n(b) an institution conducted by a further education corporation as defined by section 17(1) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992;\n“a higher education institution” means—\n(a) an institution conducted by a higher education corporation as defined by section 90(1) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992;\n(b) a university; or\n(c) an institution which has been designated by order of the Secretary of State as eligible to receive funding from a higher education council under section 129 of the Education Reform Act 1988;\n“non-executive director” means a director who does not provide services to the company for remuneration or other benefits;\n“a relevant local education authority” means a local education authority which maintains any schools whose governing bodies are members of the school company;\n“a school company” means a company to which these Regulations apply in accordance with Regulation 4;\n“supervising authority” means the local education authority designated in accordance with Part 4 of these Regulations to supervise a school company.\n(2) For the purposes of these regulations a school is “subject to special measures” if–\n(a) a report of an inspection of the school has been made under either Part 1 of the School Inspections Act 1996 or section 65 or 83 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 in which the person making it stated that in his opinion special measures were required to be taken in relation to the school; and\n(b) either that person was a member of the Inspectorate or the report stated that the Chief Inspector agreed with his opinion; and\n(c) the report has not been superseded by any subsequent report in which the person making it stated that in his view special measures were not required to be taken relation to the school.\n(3) For the purposes of these regulations a school “has serious weaknesses” if–\n(a) a report of an inspection of the school has been made under Part 1 of the School Inspections Act 1996 in which the person making it stated that in his opinion the school had serious weaknesses; and\n(b) that report has not been superseded by a subsequent report stating that in the opinion of the person writing the report the school either, no longer has serious weaknesses, or stating that special measures are required to be taken in relation to the school.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 31."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c. 13."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1988 c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1996 c. 57."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2000 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/1939",
      "affecting_title": "The Education and Inspections Act 2006 and Education and Skills Act 2008 (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) (England) Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/1172",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) (Local and Subordinate Legislation) Order 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2019/1027",
      "affecting_title": "The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (Further Implementation etc.) Regulations 2019"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2978/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:38:59.248785+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."
}