Regulation 2 Amendment of the principal Regulations

The following amendments shall be made to regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (schools and institutions to which the principal Regulations apply and interpretation)—

(a)

in paragraph (1) there shall be inserted new sub–paragraphs as follows—

“(aa)

a reference to a special school not maintained by a local education authority includes a grant–maintained special school;

(aaa)

a reference to a grant–maintained school includes a school conducted by an education association^f1 and a reference to a governing body includes an education association;”; and

(b)

in paragraph (2)—

(i)

in the definition of “authorisation”, after “Secretary of State” there shall be inserted “or the Teacher Training Agency^f2”;

(ii)

in the definition of “licence”, after “Secretary of State” there shall be inserted “or the Teacher Training Agency”;

(iii)

after the definition of “overseas trained teacher” there shall be inserted the following definition—

““pupil referral unit” means a school such as is described in section 298(2) of the Education Act 1993;”;

(iv)

for the definition of “recommending body” there shall be substituted—

““recommending body” has the meaning assigned thereto by regulation 3A;”; and

(v)

in the definition of “registration”^f3, after “Secretary of State” there shall be inserted “or the Teacher Training Agency”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Seesections 221(4) and 218(7)(a) of the Education Act 1993.
f2: The Teacher Training Agency was established under section 1 of the Education Act 1994.
f3: Inserted by S.I. 1994/222.