{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1994/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1994/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/30",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1994",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Power to reimburse certain payments to persons formerly employed in teacher training.",
  "text": "(1) The Office for Students ... may make payments, subject to such terms and conditions as it thinks fit, to—\n(a) the governing body of a grant-maintained school or grant-maintained special school, or\n(b) a further education corporation or the governing body of any institution designated under section 28 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992,\nin respect of expenditure incurred or to be incurred by that body in making safeguarded salary payments to which this section applies.\n(2) This section applies to payments made to a person who in consequence of a direction given by the Secretary of State under—\n(a) regulation 3(2) of the Further Education Regulations 1975,\n(b) regulation 15 of the Education (Schools and Further Education) Regulations 1981, being a direction relating to a course for the training of teachers, or\n(c) regulation 16 of those Regulations,\nceased before 1st April 1989 to be employed in a college for the training of teachers, or in a department for the training of teachers in any other establishment of further education.\n(3) The amount of the safeguarded salary payment is the amount by which, in consequence of the matters mentioned in subsection (2), a person’s salary exceeds that which would normally be appropriate to the post held by him.\n(4) A body to which subsection (1)(a) or (b) applies shall give to the Office for Students ... such information as it may require for the purposes of the exercise of its power under that subsection.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(1) substituted (1.4.2018) by Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 11 para. 27(2); S.I. 2018/241, reg. 2(s)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(1) omitted (1.8.2024) by virtue of Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 7(2)(a)(i) (with s. 19); S.I. 2024/806, art. 2(k)(v) (with art. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(1) substituted (1.8.2024) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 7(2)(a)(ii) (with s. 19); S.I. 2024/806, art. 2(k)(v) (with art. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 18(1)(a) repealed (1.9.1999) by 1998 c. 31, s. 140(3), Sch.31 (with ss. 138(9), 144(6)); S.I. 1999/2323, art. 2(1), Sch.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(4) substituted (1.4.2018) by Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 11 para. 27(3)(a); S.I. 2018/241, reg. 2(s)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(4) omitted (1.8.2024) by virtue of Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 7(2)(b)(i) (with s. 19); S.I. 2024/806, art. 2(k)(v) (with art. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(4) substituted (1.8.2024) by Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 7(2)(b)(ii) (with s. 19); S.I. 2024/806, art. 2(k)(v) (with art. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1992 c. 13."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 1975/1092."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1086."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/30/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:47.112761+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}