{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-training-grants-regulations-1993/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-training-grants-regulations-1993/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/72",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Training Grants) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-training-grants-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“determine” means determine by notice in writing;\n“education authority” means a local education authority;\n“eligible training” means training of a kind mentioned in regulation 4;\n“expenditure” means expenditure of a kind mentioned in regulation 5;\n“expenditure incurred by an education authority” includes expenditure incurred—\n(a) by the governing body of an aided school,\n(b) by the persons responsible for the maintenance of a special school not maintained by an education authority, or\n(c) by persons employing youth and community workers, and reimbursed by the authority;\n“grant” means a grant in pursuance of these Regulations;\n“head teacher mentor programme” means a programme of regional projects for the training of inexperienced head teachers whereby experienced head teachers give advice and assistance to support the professional development of inexperienced head teachers;\n“higher rate for England” means 100 per cent;\n“higher rate for Wales” means 65 per cent;\n“mentor” means an experienced head teacher giving advice and assistance under a head teacher mentor programme;\n“nursery nurse” means a person who holds the Diploma in Nursery Nursing or the Diploma in Post-Qualifying Studies of the National Nursery Examination Board or the National Diploma in Caring Services of the Business and Technician Education Council and who is employed in connection with the education of children up to and including the age of 8;\n“qualified teacher” means a person who, by virtue of the regulations relating to the employment of teachers from time to time in force under section 218 of the Education Reform Act 1988, is qualified to be employed as a teacher at a school of the kind described in subsection (12) of that section;\n“special educational needs” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1 of the Education Act 1981;\n“standard rate” means 60 per cent;\n“trainee” means a person undergoing eligible training in respect of whom grant is payable under these Regulations.\n(2) In these Regulations a reference to a regulation is a reference to a regulation contained therein and a reference in a regulation to a paragraph is a reference to a paragraph of that regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The regulations currently in force are the Education (Teachers) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1319, as amended by S.I. 1989/1541, 1990/1561, 1991/1134, 1991/1840, 1991/2240 and 1992/1809)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1988 c. 40; with effect from 1st April 1993, section 218 is amended by section 93 of, and paragraph 49 of Schedule 8 to, the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1981 c. 60."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/72/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:06:47.131810+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."
}