{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teacher-appraisal-wales-regulations-1999/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teacher-appraisal-wales-regulations-1999/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/1999/2888",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Teacher Appraisal) (Wales) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teacher-appraisal-wales-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires —\n“appraising body” means:\n(a) in the case of a teacher employed at a school other than a school to which paragraph (b) refers, the local education authority; and\n(b) in the case of a teacher employed at a former grant-maintained school, the governing body of the school.\n“appraisal record” means the appraisal statements prepared under Regulation 10(2) in respect of a school teacher;\n“former grant-maintained school” means a school maintained by a local education authority which immediately before 1st September 1999 was a grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school;\n“qualified teacher” has the same meaning as in section 218(2) of the Education Reform Act 1988;\n“school” means a school maintained by a local education authority;\n“school teacher” means a qualified teacher employed at any one school to work either full-time or not less than forty per cent of full-time, except on a contract of less than one school year’s duration.\n(2) In these Regulations, a reference to a community or community special, voluntary controlled, voluntary aided, or foundation or foundation special school does not include any such school which is a former grant-maintained school.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 40."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/1999/2888/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:19:48.677610+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."
}