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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-induction-arrangements-for-school-teachers-england-regulations-1999/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1065",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (England) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-induction-arrangements-for-school-teachers-england-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations–\n“the 1996 Act” means the Education Act 1996;\n“the 1998 Act” means the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;\n“appeal body” means the appeal body under regulation 5;\n“appropriate body” means the appropriate body under regulation 4;\n“authority” means a local education authority;\n“core subject” means a subject referred to in section 354(1) of the 1996 Act;\n“foundation subject” means a subject referred to in section 354(1) or (2) of the 1996 Act;\n“induction period” means an induction period required by these Regulations;\n“key stage” has the same meaning as in section 355(1) of the 1996 Act;\n“non-maintained special school” means a special school which is neither a maintained special school, a grant-maintained special school, a community special school nor a foundation special school;\n“qualified teacher” has the same meaning as in section 218(2) of the Education Reform Act 1988;\n“school day” means any day on which at that school there is a school session;\n“school session” has the same meaning as in regulation 10 of the Education (Schools and Further Education) Regulations 1981;\n“special school” has the same meaning as in section 337(1) of the 1996 Act;\n“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; and\n“working day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day which is a bank holiday within the meaning of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to–\n(a) a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule bearing that number in these Regulations;\n(b) a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in the regulation or Schedule in which the reference appears; and\n(c) a numbered sub-paragraph is a reference to the sub-paragraph bearing that number in the paragraph in which the reference appears.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 56."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1998 c. 31."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1988 c. 40. The Regulations currently in force under this provision are the Education (Teachers) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/543); the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1997/2679."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1086; Regulation 10 was amended by S.I. 1987/879, 1990/2259 and 1998/2792."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Section 337(1) is prospectively amended by paragraph 80 of Schedule 30 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2171",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (Amendment No. 3) (England) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2171",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (Amendment No. 3) (England) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1390",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (England) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/2211",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1065/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:51:15.732965+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."
}