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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standards-in-scotlands-schools-etc-act-2000/section-58",
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  "legislation": "asp/2000/6",
  "legislation_title": "Standards in Scotland’s Schools etc. Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standards-in-scotlands-schools-etc-act-2000",
  "path": "section/58",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "58",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Act—\n...\n“the 1980 Act” means the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 (c.44);\n...\n...\n“ enforcement direction ” means a direction under section 10C(1) of this Act;\n“land” includes buildings and other structures, rights registered in the Land Register of Scotland , title conditions, within the meaning given by section 122(1) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9) and any other rights in, or liabilities relating to, land;\n“moveable property” includes moveables heritable by accession;\n“ National Improvement Framework ” has the meaning given by subsection (1) of section 3C; and includes (except in that subsection) a new National Improvement Framework published under subsection (6) of that section;\n...\n“ preliminary notice ” means a notice under section 10B(1) of this Act;\n“pre-school children” means—\n(a)children who are under school age and have not commenced attendance at a primary school (other than a nursery class in such a school); and\n(b)children who have attained school age but have not commenced attendance at such a school; and\n“school improvement plan” means an improvement plan prepared under section 6(1)(a) of this Act for a school.\n(2) Any expression used in this Act and in the 1980 Act has the same meaning in this Act as in that Act.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 58(1) repealed (2.4.2012) by The Public Services Reform (General Teaching Council for Scotland) Order 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/215), art. 2, Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 58(1) repealed (1.8.2007) by Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement) Act 2006 (asp 8), s. 24(2), Sch.; S.S.I. 2007/31, art. 2(b), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 58(1) repealed (1.8.2016 for specified purposes, 1.8.2017 in so far as not already in force) by Education (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 8), ss. 2(4)(a), 33(2); S.S.I. 2016/192, reg. 2, sch.; S.S.I. 2017/164, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 58(1) inserted (31.1.2005) by School Education (Ministerial Powers and Independent Schools) (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 12), s. 9(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(a); S.S.I. 2005/10, art. 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 58(1) substituted (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, Sch. 5 para. 40 (with s. 121, Sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 58(1) substituted (28.11.2004) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 122(1), 129(2), Sch. 14 para. 12 (with ss. 119, 121) (see S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 58(1) inserted (1.8.2016) by Education (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 8), ss. 2(4)(b), 33(2); S.S.I. 2016/192, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 58(1) inserted (31.1.2005) by School Education (Ministerial Powers and Independent Schools) (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 12), s. 9(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(b); S.S.I. 2005/10, art. 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in s. 58(1) substituted (1.8.2017) by Education (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 8), ss. 3(7)(a), 33(2); S.S.I. 2017/164, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 58(1) substituted (1.8.2017) by Education (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 8), ss. 3(7)(b), 33(2); S.S.I. 2017/164, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2000/6/section/58",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:26.167957+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."
}