{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-teachers-qualifications-england-regulations-2001/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-teachers-qualifications-england-regulations-2001/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1209",
  "legislation_title": "The Further Education Teachers' Qualifications (England) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-teachers-qualifications-england-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“Certificate of Education” means a qualification known by that name awarded by an institution within the higher education sector;\n“relevant teacher” means a person employed as a teacher (whether or not the post in which the person is employed is described as a teaching post) in an institution within the further education sector other than—\n(a) a person who is employed to teach courses of higher education only, and\n(b) a person whose primary occupation or profession is not teaching and who is employed by the college on a temporary or occasional basis to provide updating on current industrial, commercial or professional practice,\n“stage 3 FE teaching qualification” means a qualification the standard for which appears to the Secretary of State to be approximately equivalent to a certificate of education and which is specified by the Secretary of State for the purposes of these Regulations;\n“stage 1 FE teaching qualification” and “stage 2 FE teaching qualification” mean respectively introductory or intermediate stages of the stage 3 FE teaching qualification the standards for which are specified by the Secretary of State for the purposes of these Regulations;\n“stage 1 post” and “stage 2 post” mean part-time teaching posts for which a stage 1 or stage 2 FE teaching qualification, as the case may be, is, in the opinion of the institution which employs the teacher, an appropriate qualification;\n“stage 3 post” means a teaching post for which a stage 3 FE teaching qualification is, in the opinion of the institution which employs the teacher, an appropriate qualification;\n“1999 Regulations qualification” mean a qualification such that the holder is a qualified teacher within the meaning of regulation 10 of the Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) Regulations 1999.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/2166."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2039",
      "affecting_title": "The Education Act 2002 (School Teachers) (Consequential Amendments, etc) (England) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2039",
      "affecting_title": "The Education Act 2002 (School Teachers) (Consequential Amendments, etc) (England) Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1209/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:52:57.010138+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."
}