{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-secondary-education-in-further-education-institutions-regulations-1999/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-secondary-education-in-further-education-institutions-regulations-1999/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/954",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Secondary Education in Further Education Institutions) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-secondary-education-in-further-education-institutions-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Presence of a teacher",
  "text": "(1) The circumstances referred to in section 52A(2) of the 1992 Act shall be that a teacher is present in the room.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) a teacher means a member of the teaching staff of–\n(a) a school maintained by a local education authority;\n(b) an institution maintained or assisted by a local education authority other than a school;\n(c) a grant-maintained school (until 1st September 1999);\n(d) a grant-maintained special school (until 1st September 1999);\n(e) a city technology college;\n(f) a city college for the technology of the arts; or\n(g) a institution within the further education sector.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1) a teacher shall be considered to be present in the room at a particular time even though no teacher is present if–\n(a) it would be impracticable to secure the presence of a teacher in a room at that time, and\n(b) the absence of a teacher at that time has not lasted more than five minutes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/954/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:55.280916+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."
}