{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-teacher-appraisal-wales-regulations-2002/regulation-3",
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  "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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) Except where the context otherwise requires, in these Regulations—\n“appraisal statement” (“datganiad gwerthuso”) has the meaning given to it by, as the case may be, regulation 16(10) or regulation 30(11);\n“external adviser” (“cynghorydd allanol”) means a person whose name appears on a list of advisers in relation to the appraisal of teachers maintained by a local education authority;\n“governing body” (“corff llywodraethu”) in relation to a school means the governing body of the school, and a “governor” (“llywodraethwr”) means a member of that governing body;\n“head teacher” (“pennaeth”) includes an acting head teacher;\n“school” (“ysgol”) means a community, voluntary, foundation, community special or foundation special school;\n“school day” (“diwrnod ysgol”) means a day on which the school meets;\n“school teacher” (“athro neu athrawes ysgol”) means a teacher employed at no more than two schools, by a local education authority or by the governing body of a foundation, voluntary aided or foundation special school, but does not include a teacher employed under a fixed term contract of employment the term of which is less than one year;\n“school which has a religious character” (“ysgol sydd â chymeriad crefyddol”) means a foundation or voluntary school designated as a school having such character under section 69(3) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998; and\n“statement of objectives” (“datganiad amcanion”) means the written statement of objectives recorded under regulation 12 (3) or regulation 26(3) as the case may be.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to—\n(a) a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations; and\n(b) a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in the regulation in which the reference appears.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 31."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2009/2864",
      "affecting_title": "The School Teacher Appraisal (Wales) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2009/2864",
      "affecting_title": "The School Teacher Appraisal (Wales) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2009/2159",
      "affecting_title": "The School Teacher Appraisal (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2009/2159",
      "affecting_title": "The School Teacher Appraisal (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2009"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2002/1394/regulation/3",
    "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."
}