{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teacher-appraisal-england-regulations-2000/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teacher-appraisal-england-regulations-2000/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1620",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Teacher Appraisal) (England) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teacher-appraisal-england-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“appraisal statement” means an appraisal statement prepared under regulation 14 in respect of a school teacher;\n“external adviser” means a person appointed as such by a school governing body being one of the persons on a list of advisers in relation to the appraisal of head teachers maintained by the Secretary of State;\n“school” means a community, voluntary, foundation, community special, or foundation special school;\n“school day”, in relation to a school, means any day on which at that school there is a school session;\n“school teacher” means a teacher employed at one or two schools by a local education authority or by the governing body of a foundation, voluntary aided or foundation special school, but does not include a teacher employed under a fixed term contract of employment the term of which is less than one year; and\n“school which has a religious character” means a foundation or voluntary school designated as a school having such a character under section 69(3) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to—\n(a) a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations; and\n(b) a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in the regulation in which the reference appears.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The order currently in force under this provision in relation to England is S.I. 1999/2432."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1620/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:22.038904+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."
}