{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teachers-appraisal-england-regulations-2012/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teachers-appraisal-england-regulations-2012/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/115",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Teachers’ Appraisal) (England) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teachers-appraisal-england-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Education Act 2002;\n“appraisal period”, in relation to a teacher, means the period determined in relation to that teacher in accordance with regulation 5;\n“school” means a community, voluntary, foundation, community special or foundation special school or a maintained nursery school;\n“teacher” means a school teacher as defined in section 122 of the Act; and\n“unattached teacher” means a teacher employed by a local authority who is—\n(a) not attached to a particular school, or\n(b) employed otherwise than at a school.\n(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, a teacher is employed at a school if—\n(a) the teacher is employed by the governing body of that school, or\n(b) the teacher is employed by the local authority to work in that school.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.9.2012, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/115/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:44:27.040477+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."
}