Regulation 3 Interpretation

(1)

In these Regulations:

“the 1998 Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998^f1;
“the 2002 Act” means the Education Act 2002;
“the Constitution Regulations” means the School Governance (Constitution) (England) Regulations 2003^f2;
“associate member” has the meaning given by regulation 11 of the Constitution Regulations;
“clerk” means the person appointed as clerk to the governing body or, as the case may be, to a committee of the governing body;
“pupil” has the meaning given by section 3 of the Education Act 1996^f3.

(2)

Any reference in these Regulations to—

(a)

a committee is a reference to a committee established by the governing body to which the governing body has delegated any of its statutory functions;

(b)

a governing body or to the governing body of a school^f4 is a reference to the governing body of a school to which the provision applies, and any reference to a governor is a reference to a member of such a governing body;

(c)

the local education authority is to the local education authority that maintains any school to which the provision applies; and

(d)

a school is a reference to a maintained school within the meaning of section 39(1) of the 2002 Act.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1998 c. 31.
f2: SI 2003/348.
f3: 1996 c. 56; section 3 was amended by paragraph 34 of Schedule 21 to the Education Act 2002.
f4: In accordance with section 24(6) of the 2002 Act, any reference to the governing body of a school is to be construed in relation to a federated school as a reference to the governing body of the federation.