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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-teaching-council-for-england-additional-functions-order-2000/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2175",
  "legislation_title": "The General Teaching Council for England (Additional Functions) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-teaching-council-for-england-additional-functions-order-2000",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1988 Act” means the Education Reform Act 1988;\n“the 1998 Act” means the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998;\n“advanced skills teacher” means a teacher who has been certified by an assessor appointed by the Secretary of State for Education and Employment as eligible for appointment to an advanced skills teacher post;\n“Council” means the General Teaching Council for England;\n“employer” in relation to a teacher includes a person who engages or makes arrangements for the engagement of that teacher to provide his services as a teacher otherwise than under a contract of employment, and “prospective employer”, “employed” and “employment” shall be construed accordingly;\n“induction period” means an induction period served in accordance with regulations under section 19 of the 1998 Act;\n“qualified teacher” has the same meaning as in section 218(2) of the Education Reform Act 1988;\n“the Register” means the register of teachers which the Council are required to establish and maintain in accordance with section 3 of the 1998 Act and Regulations made under section 4 of that Act, and “registration” shall be construed accordingly;\n“registered teacher” means a person for the time being registered under section 3 of the 1998 Act; and\n“teacher” includes any person relating to whom the Council are required by this Order to maintain records.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 19 is amended by section 139 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c. 21). The regulations currently in force under this provision are the Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (England) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1065) amended by S.I. 1999/2211, 2000/1001 and 2000/1177."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The Regulations currently in force under this provision are the Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2166)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1270",
      "affecting_title": "The General Teaching Council for England (Additional Functions) (Amendment) Order 2001"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2175/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:46:58.279224+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."
}