- assessment period
means the assessment period for the purposes of universal credit as specified in regulation 21 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013, • “couple” has the meaning given in section 39 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012, • “earned income” means the person’s earned income within the meaning of Chapter 2 of Part 6 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013, • “universal credit” means universal credit payable under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
- attendance order
has the meaning assigned to it by section 38 of this Act;
- authorised person
means—
- barred from regulated roles with children
has the meaning given in section 98A(6) of this Act;
- Carnegie Trust
means the property vested in the Carnegie Trustees for the Universities of Scotland;
- catchment area
means the area from which pupils resident therein will be admitted to the school in terms of any priority based on residence in accordance with the guidelines formulated by the authority under section 28B(1)(c) of this Act.
- central institution
means an educational establishment for the provision of further education recognised as a central institution by regulations made by the Secretary of State;
- charitable purposes
has the same meaning as in the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 10);
- child
means a person who is not over school age;
- Christmas holiday period
means a period of consecutive days which includes 25th December and in which the school does not meet for the purpose of providing school education.
- clothing
includes boots and other footwear;
- compulsory supervision order
has the meaning given by section 83 of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 1), • “residential establishment” has the meaning given by paragraph (a) of the definition of that expression in section 202(1) of that Act.
- couple
has the meaning given in section 39 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012, • “earned income” means the person’s earned income within the meaning of Chapter 2 of Part 6 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013, • “universal credit” means universal credit payable under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
- courses of higher education
means courses of higher education falling within section 38 of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992.
- dental examination
means examination by a registered dentist, so however that in conducting an examination of any such class as may be prescribed, such dentist may be assisted by other persons having such special qualifications or experience as may be prescribed;
- dental treatment
includes prevention and treatment of dental diseases by or (so far as permitted by law) under the direction of any registered dentist, and the supply of appliances on the recommendation of such dentist, but does not, in relation to any pupil other than a pupil receiving school education elsewhere than at a school under arrangements made by an education authority under section 14 of this Act, include treatment in that pupil’s home;
- early learning and childcare
has the same meaning as in Part 6 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014;
- education authority
means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc.
- educational endowment
means any endowment which has been applied or is applicable in whole or in part, whether by the declared intention of the founder, or by the consent of the governing body, or in pursuance of any scheme approved under any Act or of any provisional order or by custom or otherwise, to educational purposes;
- educational purposes
includes— (i) payments towards the cost of professional training and apprenticeship fees, (ii) the provision of maintenance, clothing and other benefits, and (iii) the payment of grants for travel;
- employer
includes a parent who employs his children;
- employers
means persons who make payments of, or on account of, income assessable to income tax under Schedule E, and
- employment
includes employment in any labour exercised by way of trade or for purposes of gain whether the gain be to the child or to the young person or to any other person, and a person who assists in a trade or occupation carried on for profit shall be deemed to be employed notwithstanding that he receives no reward for his labour;
- enactment
includes an order, regulation, rule or other instrument having effect by virtue of an Act;
- endowment
means any property, heritable or moveable, dedicated to charitable purposes, but shall not, except with the consent of the governing body, include the funds, whether capital or revenue, of any incorporation or society contributed or paid by the members of such incorporation or society by way of entry moneys or other fixed or stated payments, nor burgess or guildry fines paid to any such incorporation or society, nor funds bequeathed or given to any such incorporation or society for the benefit solely of members or widows or families of members of such incorporation or society;
- functions
includes powers and duties;
- further education
includes the forms of instruction, occupation and teaching described in section 1(5)(b) of this Act;
- Gaelic language
means Gaelic language as used in Scotland, • “Gaelic learner education” means the teaching of the Gaelic language to, and learning of the language by, pupils to whom education is provided primarily by means of the English language, • “Gaelic medium education” means teaching and learning by means of the Gaelic language.
- Gaelic learner education
means the teaching of the Gaelic language to, and learning of the language by, pupils to whom education is provided primarily by means of the English language, • “Gaelic medium education” means teaching and learning by means of the Gaelic language.
- Gaelic medium education
means teaching and learning by means of the Gaelic language.
- governing body
means the managers, governors or trustees of any endowment or other person having the administration of the revenue thereof;
- governing instrument
means, with regard to any endowment, the scheme approved under any Act or any provisional order or made under section 17 of the Local Government etc.
- grant-aided school
means a school in respect of which grants are made by the Secretary of State to the managers of the school other than (a) grants in aid of the employers’ contributions provided for in Teachers (Superannuation) Regulations, and (b) sums paid under a scheme under section 75A of this Act, or by virtue of section 75B of this Act, but does not include a public school... or a technology academy (within the meaning of the Self-Governing Schools etc.
- Health Board
means a Health Board constituted under section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;
- independent school
means a school at which full-time education is provided for... pupils of school age (whether or not such education is also provided for pupils under or over that age), not being a public school or a grant-aided school;
- industrial scholarships
means scholarships (however described) tenable by persons undertaking full-time courses of higher education provided by a university, college or other institution in the United Kingdom, being courses which appears to the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, the person awarding the scholarships to be relevant to a career in industry.
- land
includes water and any right or servitude in or over land or water.
- learning hours
means hours of school education of such type as may be prescribed, • “prescribed” means prescribed by the Scottish Ministers by regulations, • “school education” does not include early learning and childcare, • “school year” means the period of 12 months beginning on 1 August.
- medical examination
means examination by a registered medical practitioner: Provided that in conducting an examination of any such class as may be prescribed, such practitioner may be assisted by other persons having such special qualifications or experience as may be prescribed;
- medical treatment
includes prevention and treatment of diseases by any registered medical practitioner, and the supply of appliances on the recommendation of such practitioner, but does not, in relation to any pupil other than a pupil receiving school education elsewhere than at school under arrangements made by an education authority under section 14 of this Act, include treatment in that pupil’s home;
- officers
includes servants;
- parent
includes guardian and any person who is liable to maintain or has parental responsibilities (within the meaning of section 1(3) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995) in relation to, or has care of a child or young person;
- placing request
has the meaning assigned to it by section 28A(1) of this Act;
- pre-school children
means—
- prescribed
means prescribed by the Secretary of State;
- prescribed person
means— (a) in relation to a proprietor of an independent school, a person falling within such class of persons as the Scottish Ministers may, by regulations, prescribe;
- proposed teacher
means a person that the proprietor of an independent school proposes will, on the registration of that school, be a teacher in it.
- provisional order
means provisional order confirmed by Act of Parliament and provisional order made under the Act of 1878;
- public school
means any school under the management of an education authority;
- qualifying child
means— (a) a child of school age;
- registered school
means an independent school which is registered in the register of independent schools...;
- registered teacher
means a teacher registered under the Public Services Reform (General Teaching Council for Scotland) Order 2011;
- relevant school
means in relation to a reference to the appeal committee—
- reserved places
means such number of places (not exceeding such number or, as the case may be, such percentage of places at the school or relating to the particular stage of education as may be prescribed by regulations) as are in the opinion of the education authority reasonably required to accommodate pupils likely to become resident in the catchment area of the school in the period from the time of consideration of the placing request up to and during the year from 1 August to which the placing request relates;
- residential establishment
has the meaning given by paragraph (a) of the definition of that expression in section 202(1) of that Act.
- school
means an institution for the provision of primary or secondary education or both primary and secondary education being a public school, a grant-aided school... or an independent school, and includes a nursery school and a special school;
- school education
has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(5)(a) of this Act;
- school lunch
means anything provided, or the provision of which is secured, by an education authority under subsection (2) in the middle of the day which the education authority considers is appropriate for consumption as a meal at that time of the day.
- school year
means the period of 12 months beginning on 1 August.
- special school
has the meaning given in section 29(1) of the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 4) • “specified school” has the meaning assigned to it by section 28A(1) and (2) of this Act;
- specified school
has the meaning assigned to it by section 28A(1) and (2) of this Act;
- the Act of 1878
means the Endowed Institutions (Scotland) Act 1878;
- the Act of 1882
means the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act 1882;
- the Act of 1918
means the Education (Scotland) Act 1918;
- the Act of 1937
means the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937;
- the Act of 1946
means the Education (Scotland) Act 1946;
- the Act of 1962
means the Education (Scotland) Act 1962;
- the Acts of 1928 to 1935
means the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Acts 1928 to 1935;
- the appropriate day in December
means— and in paragraph (a) of this subsection, “Christmas holiday period” means a period of consecutive days which includes 25th December and in which the school does not meet for the purpose of providing school education.
- the appropriate Health Board
has the same meaning as in section 57 of this Act.
- the delegation of functions provisions
means section 73A(3) of this Act or section 23(4) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998;
- the student loans scheme
means the provisions of— and in this subsection any reference to a provision of this Act includes a reference to any corresponding Northern Ireland legislation.
- the Taxes Acts
has the same meaning as in the Taxes Management Act 1970.
- the transfer of functions provisions
means section 73A(1) of this Act or section 23(1) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998;
- theological endowment
means an endowment solely or mainly applicable or applied for the purposes of theological instruction or belonging to any theological institution;
- universal credit
means universal credit payable under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
- university endowment
means an endowment vested in, or administered by, or in the gift of any of the universities of Scotland or any of the colleges of such universities.
- walking distance
has the same meaning as in section 42 of this Act.
- young person
means a person over school age who has not attained the age of eighteen years.