{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-workforce-council-accreditation-of-initial-teacher-training-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2017/165",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Workforce Council (Accreditation of Initial Teacher Training) (Wales) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-workforce-council-accreditation-of-initial-teacher-training-wales-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 1996 Act” (“Deddf 1996”) means the Education Act 1996;\n“the 1998 Act” (“Deddf 1998”) means the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998;\n“the 2002 Act” means the Education Act 2002 (“Deddf 2002”);\n“the 2014 Act” (“Deddf 2014”) means the Education (Wales) Act 2014;\n“the 2012 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 2012”) means the School Teachers’ Qualifications (Wales) Regulations 2012;\n“accredited course or programme of study” (“cwrs neu raglen astudio achrededig”) means a course or programme of initial school teacher training accredited by the Council under article 3(1)(a) of the Education Workforce Council (Accreditation of Initial Teacher Training) (Additional Functions) (Wales) Order 2017;\n“accreditation criteria” (“meini prawf achredu”) means the criteria specified by the Welsh Ministers under regulation 4;\n“accredited institution” (“sefydliad achrededig”) means an institution accredited by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales under regulation 7 of the 2012 Regulations;\n“Appeals Committee” (“Pwyllgor Apelau”) means the accreditation of initial school teacher training appeals committee established under regulation 7;\n“the applicant” (“y ceisydd”) means an institution submitting an application for accreditation by the Council of a course or programme of initial school teacher training;\n“Committee” (“Pwyllgor”) means the accreditation of initial school teacher training committee established under regulation 5;\n“the Council” (“y Cyngor”) means the Education Workforce Council continued in existence by section 2 of the 2014 Act;\n“chief officer” (“prif swyddog”) means the chief officer of the Council;\n“further education institution” (“sefydliad addysg bellach”) has the meaning given in section 140 of the 2002 Act;\n“member of the Council” (“aelod o’r Cyngor”) means a member of the Council appointed in accordance with paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the 2014 Act;\n“provider” (“darparwr”) means a body that provides courses or programmes of initial school teacher training.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 56."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1998 c. 30."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2002 c. 32."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2012/724 (W. 96)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2017/165/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:27:40.558537+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."
}