{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-procedures-england-regulations-2003/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-procedures-england-regulations-2003/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1377",
  "legislation_title": "The School Governance (Procedures) (England) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-governance-procedures-england-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations:\n“the 1998 Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;\n“the 2002 Act” means the Education Act 2002;\n“the Constitution Regulations” means the School Governance (Constitution) (England) Regulations 2003;\n“associate member” has the meaning given by regulation 11 of the Constitution Regulations;\n“clerk” means the person appointed as clerk to the governing body or, as the case may be, to a committee of the governing body;\n“pupil” has the meaning given by section 3 of the Education Act 1996.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to—\n(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;\n(b) a governing body or to the governing body of a school 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;\n(c) the local education authority is to the local education authority that maintains any school to which the provision applies; and\n(d) a school is a reference to a maintained school within the meaning of section 39(1) of the 2002 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 31."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "SI 2003/348."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1996 c. 56; section 3 was amended by paragraph 34 of Schedule 21 to the Education Act 2002."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "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."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/959",
      "affecting_title": "The School Governance (Procedures) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1377/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:23:36.309797+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."
}