The Education (Budget Statements) (Wales) Regulations 2002

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

• “the 1998 Act” (“Deddf 1998”) means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;

• “the 1999 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 1999”) means the Financing of Maintained Schools Regulations 1999(1);

• “allocation formula” (“fformwla ddyrannu”) means the authority’s formula under regulation 10 of the 1999 Regulations used to determine schools' budget shares;

• “authority” (“awdurdod”) means a local education authority;

• “budget share” (“cyfran o'r gyllideb”) has the meaning given to it by section 47(1) of the 1998 Act;

• “budget statement” (“datganiad cyllideb”) means the statement referred to in section 52(1) of the 1998 Act;

• “factor” (“ffactor”) means one of the factors or criteria taken into account in the allocation formula;

• “financial year” (“blwyddyn ariannol”) has the meaning given to it by section 579(1) of the Education Act 1996(2);

• “ISB” means an authority’s individual schools budget within the meaning of section 46(2) of the 1998 Act;

• “key stage” (“cyfnod allweddol”) shall be interpreted in accordance with section 355(1) of the Education Act 1996;

• “LEA number” (“rhif AALl”) means the reference number allocated to the authority by the National Assembly or the Secretary of State;

• “middle school” (“ysgol ganol”) has the meaning given to it by section 5(3) of the Education Act 1996(3);

• “the National Assembly” (“y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol”) means the National Assembly for Wales;

• “official reference number” (“rhif cyfeirnod swyddogol”) means the reference number allocated to the school by the National Assembly or the Secretary of State;

• “relevant” (“perthnasol”) in relation to “age” (“oedran”), “age group” (“grŵ p oedran”) and “year group” (“grŵ p blwyddyn”) means an age, age group or year group separately treated in the allocation formula for the purposes of determining that part of each school’s budget share which is to be determined by reference to numbers of registered pupils;

• “school” (“ysgol”) means a maintained school, that is to say a community, foundation or voluntary school or a community or foundation special school;

• “special educational needs” (“anghenion addysgol arbennig”) and “special educational provision” (“darpariaeth addysgol arbennig”) have the meanings given to those expressions by section 312(2) and (4) of the Education Act 1996(4);

• “statement” (“datganiad”) in relation to a pupil with special educational needs means a statement made under section 324(1) of the Education Act 1996; and

• “version number” (“rhif fersiwn”) means a number which distinguishes a particular form submitted by the authority from earlier versions of the form submitted by them.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

(a) references to primary or secondary schools do not include special schools; and

(b) references to the number or numbers of registered pupils at one or more schools are references to the number or numbers of such pupils required under the allocation formula to be used for the initial determination of that school’s budget share or those schools' budget shares for the year but ignoring any weighting in accordance with paragraph (7) or any adjustment under paragraph (8) of regulation 11 of the 1999 Regulations.

(3) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule in these Regulations so numbered.

(1)

S.I. 1999/101 amended by S.I. 2000/911 (W.40) and 2001/495 (W.22).

(2)

1996 c. 56. The definition was inserted by paragraph 43 of Schedule 7 to the Education Act 1997 c. 44.

(3)

Section 5(3) is amended by paragraph 59 of Schedule 30 to the 1998 Act.

(4)

1996 c. 56. Section 312(4) was amended by paragraph 71 of Schedule 30 to the 1998 Act.