{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-framework-act-1998/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-framework-act-1998/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/31",
  "legislation_title": "School Standards and Framework Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-standards-and-framework-act-1998",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Chapter I.",
  "text": "In this Chapter—\n“class” means a group in which pupils are taught in an ordinary teaching session;\n“infant class” means a class containing pupils the majority of whom will attain the age of five, six or seven during the course of the school year;\n“ordinary teaching session” does not include a school assembly or other school activity usually conducted with large groups of pupils;\n“school teacher” means a person who is a school teacher for the purposes of section 122 of the Education Act 2002 (determination of school teachers’ pay and conditions)",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 4 substituted (19.12.2002 for W., 1.8.2003 for E.) by Education Act 2002 (c. 32), s. 216(4), Sch. 21 para. 88 (with ss. 210(8), 214(4)); S.I. 2002/3185, art. 4, Sch. Pt. 1; S.I. 2003/1667, art. 3"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/31/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:40.566698+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."
}