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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-teaching-council-for-england-deduction-of-fees-regulations-2001/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-teaching-council-for-england-deduction-of-fees-regulations-2001/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3993",
  "legislation_title": "General Teaching Council for England (Deduction of Fees) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-teaching-council-for-england-deduction-of-fees-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1988 Act” means the Education Reform Act 1988;\n“the 1998 Act” means the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998;\n“the Council” means the General Teaching Council for England;\n“employer”, in relation to a teacher, includes a local education authority, governing body or other person who engage (or make arrangements for the engagement of) that person to provide his services as a teacher otherwise than under a contract of employment, and “employed”, “employment” and any expressions relating to the termination of employment shall be construed accordingly;\n“fee” means any fee payable by virtue of section 4(4) of the 1998 Act; and\n“the Register” means the register of teachers which the Council established and maintains in accordance with section 3 of the 1998 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The regulations currently in force under this provision are the General Teaching Council for England (Registration of Teachers) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2176). See regulation 9."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3993/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:18:49.911459+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."
}