1 These Regulations may be cited as the Education Standards Fund (England) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 12th January 2001.
2 The Education Standards Fund (England) Regulations 2000 shall be amended as follows.
S.I.2000/703, amended by S.I.2000/2332.
3 In regulation 2(1) the following definition shall be inserted at the appropriate place—

““maintained nursery school” means an institution, other than a primary school, which provides full-time or part-time education suitable for children who have not attained compulsory school age and which is maintained by an education authority;”

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4 In regulation 5(2) the following entries shall be inserted at the end of the table in the left hand and right hand columns respectively—

“54	100
55	100”

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5 Schedule 1 shall be amended by inserting after paragraph 53 the following paragraphs—

“54 Support for measures to develop and extend the services provided by maintained nursery schools.
55 Support for schemes by education authorities to pilot new methods of providing education services.”

Estelle Morris Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment 16th December 2000