Regulation 2 InterpretationI1

In these Regulations—

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

• F1...

• F2“approval number”(“rhif cymeradwyo”) is the number allocated to a qualification by Qualifications Wales under section 22(3) of the Qualifications Wales Act 2015;

• F3“approved relevant qualification” (“cymhwyster perthnasol a gymeradwywyd”) is a qualification within the meaning of section 56 of the Qualifications Wales Act 2015;

• “authority” (“awdurdod”) means—

  1. (i)

     in relation to a school maintained by a local authority that authority; and

  2. (ii)

     in relation to a non-maintained special school or an independent school, the local authority in whose area the school is situated;

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• “maintained school” (“ysgol a gynhelir”) means—

  1. (i)

     any community, foundation or voluntary school, or

  2. (ii)

     any community or foundation special school which is not established in a hospital;

  but excludes any nursery school;

• “non-maintained special school” (“ysgol arbennig nas cynhelir”) means a special school which is not maintained by an authority;

• “qualification number” (“rhif cymhwyster”) means the unique reference number allocated to qualifications on the register to identify that qualification;

• “the register” (“y gofrestr”) means the register maintained and published by the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation pursuant to section 148 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009^f1;

• “reporting school year” (“blwyddyn adrodd yr ysgol”) means the school year immediately preceding the school year in which information provided to the Welsh Ministers is to be published by the Welsh Ministers or, as the case may be, local authorities;

• “school session” (“sesiwn ysgol”) is to be interpreted in accordance with regulation 4 of the Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) Regulations 2003^f2;

• F4“statutory assessments” (“asesiadau statudol”) means the assessment arrangements specified in—

  1. (a)

     the National Curriculum (Key Stage 3 Assessment Arrangements) (Wales) Order 2005;

  2. (b)

     the Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for Reading and Numeracy) (Wales) Order 2013;

  3. (c)

     the National Curriculum (Assessment Arrangements for the Foundation Phase and the Second and Third Key Stages) (Wales) Order 2014; and

  4. (d)

     in Part 3 of the National Curriculum (Desirable Outcomes, Educational Programmes and Baseline and End of Phase Assessment Arrangements for the Foundation Phase) (Wales) Order 2015 for the 2021 to 2022 school year only;

• “unauthorised absence” (“absenoldeb heb ei awdurdodi”) means an occasion on which a pupil is recorded as absent without authority pursuant to the Education (Pupil Registration) (Wales) Regulations 2010^f3 and “authorised absence” (“absenoldeb awdurdodedig”) is to be construed accordingly; and

• “unique pupil number” (“rhif unigryw disgybl”) means a combination of numbers which together with a letter or letters is allocated to a pupil and are particular to that pupil, by use of a formula determined by the Welsh Ministers.

In these Regulations, except where the context otherwise requires—

Where these Regulations require or permit information to be transferred in electronic or machine readable form, that requirement must be met by transferring the information through a secure internet website provided for that purpose by or on behalf of the Welsh Ministers.

For the purposes of these Regulations any approved relevant qualification for which a pupil was entered during a previous school year is to be treated as such an entry during the reporting school year.