Regulation 2 General interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “approved” means approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of these Regulations;

• “authority” means a local education authority;

• “classroom assistant” means a person who is employed in a school to provide support and assistance in the classroom to teachers;

• “EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992^f1 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993^f2;

• “European Economic Area” means the European Community and subject to the conditions laid down in the EEA Agreement the area comprised by the Republic of Iceland, the Kingdom of Norway and the Principality of Liechtenstein;

• “fast track teacher” has the same meaning as in the School Teachers'; Pay and Conditions Document 2001^f3;

• “maintained school” means a school maintained by an authority;

• “MOD school” has the same meaning as in the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document 2001;

• “National Teaching Award” means an award made in recognition of exceptional achievement in the classroom by a teacher or classroom assistant by the Teaching Awards Trust^f4;

• “non-maintained special school” means a special school not maintained by an authority;

• “qualified teacher” has the same meaning given to that expression by section 218(2) of the Education Reform Act 1988^f5;

• “relevant school” means a maintained school, a non-maintained special school, a city technology college, a city college for the technology of the arts or a city academy;

• “supply teacher” means a teacher employed wholly or mainly for the purpose of supervising or teaching pupils whose regular teacher is not available to teach them;

• “unattached teacher” means a teacher employed in the provision of primary or secondary education who is not attached to a particular school or who is employed otherwise than in a school; and

• “year” means the period from 1st April 2002 to 31st March 2003 or from 1st April 2003 to 31st March 2004.

In these Regulations, a reference to a teacher employed in a school includes a teacher who is engaged to provide his services as a teacher in a school otherwise than under a contract of employment.