Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations reduce from 200 to 198 days the minimum number of school days that an education authority school in Scotland must be open during the school year 1986/1987. They further reduce to 190 the minimum number of school days that such a school must be open during 1987/1988 and subsequent school years. A school year runs from 1st August in one year to 31st July in the next.