{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teacher-appraisal-england-regulations-2001/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teacher-appraisal-england-regulations-2001/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2855",
  "legislation_title": "Education (School Teacher Appraisal) (England) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teacher-appraisal-england-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part II",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“appraisal statement” means an appraisal statement prepared under regulation 16 in respect of a 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“nursery school” means a nursery school maintained by a local education authority for which a management committee, governing body or board of governors (however described) has been constituted and which is charged with the exercise of staff management functions;\n“school” means—\n(a) a community, voluntary, foundation, community special, or foundation special school; or\n(b) a nursery school;\n“school day”, in relation to a school, means any day on which at that school there is a school session;\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“short fixed term contract” means a fixed term contract of one school term or more but less than one year; and\n“teacher” has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 3.\n(2) In the application of Part II to a teacher employed to work at a nursery school—\n“chairman of the governing body” means the chairman of the management committee, governing body or board of governors (however described) of the school;\n“governing body” means the management committee, governing body or board of governors (however described) of the school; and\n“governor” means a member of the management committee, governing body or board of governors (however described) of the school.",
  "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/2001/2855/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:30:55.201264+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."
}