The Education (School Inspection) (No. 2) Regulations 1993

PART I GENERAL

Citation, commencement, application, amendment and revocation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (School Inspection) (No. 2) Regulations 1993.

(2) Parts I, II and IV of these Regulations shall come into force on 1st September 1993, and Part III of these Regulations shall come into force on 1st October 1993.

(3) These Regulations apply only in relation to schools in England.

(4) Parts II and IV of the Education (School Inspection) Regulations 1993(1) shall cease to have effect on the date on which this paragraph comes into force, and those Regulations shall be revoked on 1st October 1993.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations–

“bank holiday” means a day which is a bank holiday in England and Wales under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971;

“school year” means the period of twelve months commencing on 1st August;

“the 1992 Act” means the Education (Schools) Act 1992;

“working day” means any day which is not a Saturday, a Sunday, a bank holiday or part of a holiday longer than a week taken by a school under inspection; and

any reference to a child who is looked after by a local authority shall have the same meaning as in section 22 of the Children Act 1989(2).

(2) Where these Regulations require an act to be done within a specified period from a specified date the period begins immediately after that date.

(3) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in a regulation of these Regulations to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation in which the reference appears.

(1)

S.I. 1993/1492.

(2)

1989 c. 41.