{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/skills-and-post-16-education-act-2022/section-30",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/21",
  "legislation_title": "Skills and Post-16 Education Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/skills-and-post-16-education-act-2022",
  "path": "section/30",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Chapter",
  "text": "In this Chapter, the following terms have the following meanings—\n“assignment” includes an examination and any piece of work;\n“examination” includes any form of assessment;\n“permitted assistance”, in relation to a relevant assignment, has the meaning given by section 26(8);\n“personally”, in relation to an assignment that is a relevant assignment, has the extended meaning given by section 26(8);\n“post-16 institution” means—\n(a) a higher education provider, within the meaning of Part 1 of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (see section 83(1) of that Act);\n(b) an institution within the further education sector, within the meaning of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (see section 91(3) of that Act);\n(c) a 16 to 19 Academy;\n(d) any other institution or person, other than a school, that is principally concerned with the provision of education or training suitable to the requirements of pupils who are over compulsory school age;\n“regulated qualification” means a qualification regulated by the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation;\n“relevant assignment” has the meaning given by section 26(7);\n“relevant course” means—\n(a) a course of any description mentioned in Schedule 6 to the Education Reform Act 1988, or\n(b) a course—\n(i) providing education or training in preparation for an examination relating to a regulated qualification, or\n(ii) which a person is required to complete in order to obtain a regulated qualification;\n“relevant service” has the meaning given by section 26(2);\n“school” has the same meaning as in the Education Act 1996;\n“sixth form” means a school, or part of a school, that is principally concerned with the provision of full-time education suitable to the requirements of pupils who are over compulsory school age;\n“student” has the meaning given by section 26(6).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 30 in force at 28.6.2022, see s. 36(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/21/section/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:57:05.169498+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."
}