" Agreed syllabus " means, subject to the provisions of subsection (4) of this section, an agreed syllabus of religious instruction prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Fifth Schedule to this Act and adopted or deemed to be adopted thereunder ;

" Alterations ", in relation to any school premises, includes any improvements or enlargements which do not amount to the establishment of a new school;

" Assist ", in relation to any school college or institution, has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (2) of this section;

" Child " means a person who is not over compulsory school age ;

" Clothing " includes boots and other footwear ;

" Compulsory school age " has, subject to the provisions of section thirty-eight of this Act, the meaning assigned to it by section thirty-five of this Act;

" County " means an administrative county within the meaning of the Local Government Act. 1933 ;

" Former authority " means any authority which was a local education authority within the meaning of any enactment repealed by this Act or any previous Act;

" Foundation managers " and " foundation governors " mean, in relation to any voluntary school, managers and governors appointed otherwise than by a local education authority or a minor authority for the purpose of securing, so far as is practicable, that the character of the school as a voluntary school is preserved and developed, and, in particular, that the school is conducted in accordance with the provisions of any trust deed relating thereto ; and, unless the context otherwise requires, references in this Act to " managers " or " governors " shall, in relation to any function thereby conferred or imposed exclusively on foundation managers or foundation governors, be construed as references to such managers or governors;

" Further education " has the meaning assigned to it by section forty-one of this Act ;

" Independent school " means any school at which full-time education is provided for five or more pupils of compulsory school age (whether or not such education is also provided for pupils under or over that age), not being a school maintained by a local education authority or a school in respect of which grants are made by the Minister to the proprietor of the school;

" Junior pupil " means a child who has not attained the age of twelve years ;

" Local education authority " means, in relation to any area for which a joint education board is constituted as the local education authority under the provisions of Part I of the First Schedule to this Act, the board so constituted, and, save as aforesaid, means, in relation to a county, the council of the county, and, in relation to a county borough, the council of the county borough ;

" Local education order " means an order made by the Minister under section twelve of this Act;

" Local government elector " has the meaning assigned to it by section three hundred and five of the Local Government Act, 1933 ; and in relation to the area of any joint education board constituted under Part I of the First Schedule to this Act a local government elector for the area of any council by whom members are appointed to the board shall be deemed to be a local government elector for the area of the authority.

" Maintain " in relation to any school or county college has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (2) of this section ;'

" Maintenance contribution ", in relation to any voluntary school, means a contribution payable under section one hundred and two of this Act;

" Medical inspection " means inspection by or under the directions of a medical officer of a local education authority or by a person registered under the M1Dentists Act, 1878, employed or engaged, whether regularly or for the purposes of any particular case, by a local education authority ;

" Medical officer " means, in relation to any local education authority, a duly qualified medical practitioner employed or engaged, whether regularly or for the purposes of any particular case, by that authority ;

" Medical treatment " includes treatment by any duly qualified medical practitioner or by any person registered under the Dentists Act, 1878, but does not, in relation to any pupil other than a pupil receiving primary or secondary education otherwise than at school under arrangements made by a local education authority, include treatment in that pupil's home ;

" Minor authority " means, in relation to any school maintained by the local education authority for a county, the council of any borough (other than a county borough) or urban district or rural parish which appears to the local education authority to be the area served by the school, so, however, that where it appears to the local education authority that the area served by the school is a rural parish which has no parish council, the parish meeting of that parish shall be the minor authority, and where it appears to the local education authority that a school serves the area of two or more minor authorities, that expression shall be construed as referring to all those minor authorities acting jointly;

" Parent ", in relation to any child or young person, includes a guardian and every person who has the actual custody of the child or young person ;

" Premises ", in relation to any school, includes any detached playing fields, but, except where otherwise expressly provided, does not include a teacher's dwelling-house ;

" Prescribed " means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister;

" Primary education " has the meaning assigned to it by section eight of this Act ;

" Primary school " means, subject to the provisions of subsection (3) of this section, a school for providing primary education ;

" Proprietor ", in relation to any school, means the person or body of persons responsible for the management of the school, and for the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to applications for the registration of independent schools, includes any person or body of persons proposing to be so responsible ;

" Provisionally registered school " means an independent school registered in the register of independent schools, whereof the registration is provisional only ;

" Pupil ", where used without qualification, means a person of any age for whom education is required to be provided under this Act;

" Registered pupil " means, in relation to any school, a pupil registered as such in the register kept in accordance with the requirements of this Act, but does not include any child who has been withdrawn from the school in the prescribed manner;

" Registered school " means an independent school registered in the register of independent schools, whereof the registration is final;

" School " means an institution for providing primary or secondary education or both primary and secondary education, being a school maintained by a local education authority, an independent school, or a school in respect of which grants are made by the Minister to the proprietor of the school; and the expression " school" where used without qualification includes any such school or all such schools as the context may require ;

" Secondary education " has the meaning assigned to it by section eight of this Act;

" Secondary school " means, subject to the provisions of subsection (3) of this section, a school for providing secondary education ;

" Senior pupil " means a person who has attained the age of twelve years but has not attained the age of nineteen years ;

" Special agreement " means an agreement made under the provisions of the Third Schedule to this Act;

" Special educational treatment " has the meaning assigned to it by paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section eight of this Act;

" Trust deed ", in relation to any voluntary school, includes any instrument (not being an instrument of management, instrument of government, rules of management, or articles of government, made under this Act) regulating the maintenance management or conduct of the school or the constitution of the body of managers or governors thereof;

" Young person " means a person over compulsory school age who has not attained the age of eighteen years.