6(1)This paragraph applies for the purposes of this Schedule.E+W+S
(2)Regulations may prescribe services which are, or are not, to be regarded as being—
(a)education;
(b)a benefit, facility or service.
(3)The power to make regulations is exercisable by—
(a)in relation to England, a Minister of the Crown;
(b)in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers.
(4)“Disabled pupil” includes a disabled person who may be admitted to the school as a pupil.
(5)“Responsible body” means—
(a)in relation to a maintained school or a maintained nursery school, the local authority or governing body;
(b)in relation to a pupil referral unit, the local authority;
(c)in relation to an independent educational institution [F1or an alternative provision Academy that is not an independent educational institution], the proprietor;
(d)in relation to a special school not maintained by a local authority, the proprietor.
(6)“Governing body”, in relation to a maintained school, means the body corporate (constituted in accordance with regulations under section 19 of the Education Act 2002) which the school has as a result of that section.
(7)“Maintained school” has the meaning given in section 20 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998; and “maintained nursery school” has the meaning given in section 22 of that Act.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 10 para. 6(5)(c) inserted (E.W.) (1.4.2012) by The Alternative Provision Academies (Consequential Amendments to Acts) (England) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/976), arts. 1, 2, Sch. para. 27