The Education (School Performance Information) (Wales) Regulations 1994

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations, except where the context otherwise requires—

“the 1988 Act” means the Education Reform Act 1988;

“authorised absence” means an occasion on which a pupil is recorded as absent with authority pursuant to the Pupils' Registration Regulations 1956(1);

“the Document” means the Document published by the Secretary of State containing information provided in accordance with regulation 3 of these Regulations for the area of each local education authority in Wales;

“independent school” means any school at which full time education is provided for five or more pupils of secondary school age (whether or not such education is also provided for pupils under that age) not being a school maintained by a local education authority, a grant maintained school or a special school not maintained by a local education authority;

“maintained school” means—

(a)

any county or voluntary secondary school;

(b)

any maintained special school which is not established in a hospital; and

(c)

any grant-maintained secondary school;

and “maintained primary school” and “maintained secondary school” mean, respectively, a maintained school which is a primary school or a maintained school which is a secondary school;

“reporting school year” means the school year immediately preceding the school year in which information is required to be provided to the Secretary of State pursuant to regulation 3;

“Schools' Census enumeration date” means the date falling in the reporting school year on which the Secretary of State requires information relating to the school pursuant to section 92 of the Education Act 1944(2);

“unauthorised absence” means an occasion on which a pupil is recorded as absent without authority pursuant to the Pupils' Registration Regulations 1956.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations, any reference to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph of that regulation bearing that number, any reference in a paragraph to a sub-paragraph is a reference to a sub-paragraph of that paragraph and any reference to a Schedule is to the Schedule to these Regulations.

(3) In these Regulations references to absences are references to those absences recorded in a register where the majority of the pupils are subject to the provisions relating to recording of authorised and unauthorised absence.

(4) In these Regulations, a reference to the reporting period is a reference to the period commencing at the beginning of the reporting school year and ending on the date of the Late May Bank Holiday.

(5) In these Regulations references to key stages are references to the periods set out in section 3(3) of the 1988 Act.

(1)

S.I. 1956/357: these Regulations have been amended by the Education (Pupils' Attendance Records) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/1582).

(2)

1944 c. 31.