{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-teacher-appraisal-wales-regulations-2002/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-teacher-appraisal-wales-regulations-2002/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2002/1394",
  "legislation_title": "The School Teacher Appraisal (Wales) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-teacher-appraisal-wales-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Provision and retention of appraisal statements",
  "text": "(1) The appraisers must provide a copy of the appraisal statement to—\n(a) the head teacher;\n(b) the chairman of the governing body;\n(c) any governors responsible for advising about, or taking decisions in relation to, the promotion of school teachers or the use of any discretion in relation to pay, upon request; and\n(d) in the case of the head teacher of a school which does not have a delegated budget (within the meaning of Chapter IV of Part II of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998) any officer or adviser specifically designated by the Chief Education Officer to be responsible for advising about, or taking decisions in relation to, the use of any discretion in relation to pay, upon request.\n(2) The chairman of the governing body must, upon request, provide a summary of the appraisal statement to the Chief Education Officer or any officer or adviser specifically designated by the Chief Education Officer to be responsible for advising about, or taking decisions in relation to, the performance of head teachers pursuant to paragraph 23 of Schedule 16 and paragraph 22 of Schedule 17 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.\n(3) The chairman of the governing body must provide any appeals officer and any external adviser assisting the appeals officer with a copy of the appraisal statement and the statement of objectives within five school days of the governing body receiving notice of an appeal under regulation 16(2).\n(4) Where a new appraiser or external adviser is appointed otherwise than at the beginning of an appraisal cycle, the chairman of the governing body must provide that person with a copy of any current statement of objectives.\n(5) The chairman of the governing body must provide a copy of the annex to the appraisal statement referred to in regulation 15(4) to the person or persons responsible for planning the training and development of the head teacher in the school.\n(6) A head teacher must keep a copy of his or her appraisal statement until at least three years after the next appraisal statement has been finalised.\n(7) The governing body must keep a copy of the head teacher’s appraisal statement until at least three years after the next appraisal statement has been finalised.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2007/944",
      "affecting_title": "The Staffing of Maintained Schools (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2002/1394/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:13:54.757579+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."
}