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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-fast-track-bursaries-and-grants-england-regulations-2001/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-fast-track-bursaries-and-grants-england-regulations-2001/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3071",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Fast Track Bursaries and Grants) (England) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-fast-track-bursaries-and-grants-england-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“authority” means a local education authority;\n“Fast Track initial teacher training course” means a course of initial teacher training for the Post-Graduate Certificate in Education, approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Fast Track Teaching Programme;\n“Fast Track teaching post” means employment as a qualified teacher in a post approved by or on behalf of the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Fast Track Teaching Programme;\n“Fast Track Teaching Programme” means a programme of teacher training and career development for those assessed under arrangements made by the Secretary of State as meeting a high standard in the competencies and possessing a high degree of commitment to the values set down by the Secretary of State;\n“governing body” in relation to an institution conducted by a company shall be construed in accordance with any order under section 4(3) of the Education Act 1994;\n“grant” means a payment of money made in pursuance of these Regulations to the governing body of an institution providing a Fast Track initial teacher training course;\n“institution” means an eligible institution within the meaning of section 4(2) of the Education Act 1994;\n“qualified teacher” has the same meaning as in section 218(2) of the Education Reform Act 1988; and\n“a bursary” means a payment of money made in pursuance of these Regulations to a person on a Fast Track initial teacher training course.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations, any reference to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph of the 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1994 c. 30."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1988 c. 40."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2039",
      "affecting_title": "The Education Act 2002 (School Teachers) (Consequential Amendments, etc) (England) Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3071/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:29:06.083486+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."
}