# The School Governors' Annual Reports (Wales) Regulations 2011, Regulation 2: Interpretation

Extent: E+W

In these Regulations—
“the 1996 Act” (“Deddf 1996”) means the Education Act 1996;
“the 1998 Act” (“Deddf 1998”) means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;
“the 2002 Act” (“Deddf 2002”) means the Education Act 2002;
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“budget share” (“cyfran o'r gyllideb”) means the amount allocated to the governing body by virtue of section 47 of the 1998 Act;
“DEWi” (“DEWi”) means the data exchange Wales initiative database maintained and published by the Welsh Ministers;
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“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 “Guidance on school categories according to Welsh-medium provision” first published by the Welsh Ministers on 16 December 2021;
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“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;
“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 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;

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/1939/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/school-governors-annual-reports-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-2
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