Regulation 2 InterpretationI1

In these Regulations—

• “the 1996 Act” (“Deddf 1996”) means the Education Act 1996^f1;

• “the 1998 Act” (“Deddf 1998”) means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998^f2;

• “the 2002 Act” (“Deddf 2002”) means the Education Act 2002;

• F1...

• “budget share” (“cyfran o'r gyllideb”) means the amount allocated to the governing body by virtue of section 47 of the 1998 Act^f3;

• “DEWi” (“DEWi”) means the data exchange Wales initiative database maintained and published by the Welsh Ministers^f4;

• F2...

• “governors' report” (“adroddiad llywodraethwyr”) means the report which the governing body is required to prepare once in every school year under section 30 of the 2002 Act;

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• “language category” (“categori iaith”) means the category used for defining the type and extent of Welsh medium education provision made by a school and set out in the information document entitled F3“Guidance on school categories according to Welsh-medium provision” first published by the Welsh Ministers on 16 December 2021;

• F4...

• F5“nursery year” (”blwyddyn meithrin”) means the school year in which the majority of the pupils in the year group attain the age of 4;

• “parent” (“rhiant”) has the meaning given to it by section 576 of the 1996 Act^f5;

• “reporting school year” (“blwyddyn adrodd yr ysgol”) means the school year immediately preceding the school year in which the information is published by the governing body;

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• “Summary of Secondary School Performance” (“Crynodeb Perfformiad Ysgol Uwchradd”) means the summary of a school’s performance published by the Welsh Ministers on DEWi; and

• “unauthorised absence” (“absenoldeb anawdurdodedig”) means an occasion on which a pupil is recorded as absent without authority pursuant to the Education (Pupil Registration) (Wales) Regulations 2010^f6 and “authorised absence” (“absenoldeb awdurdodedig”) must be construed accordingly.

• “year 11” (“blwyddyn 11”) means the school year in which the majority of pupils in the year group attain the age of 16;