Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations place a duty on education authorities and managers of grant-aided schools relating to the provision of period products to pupils. Regulation 2 provides a definition of “period products”. Regulation 3 provides that education authorities are to make period products available to pupils who need to use them who are in attendance at public schools or accommodated in education authority hostels. Regulation 4 provides that, as a condition of grant made to grant-aided schools, the managers of such schools are to make period products available to pupils who need to use them who are in attendance at such schools.