Section 7 Interpretation.

In this Act—

• “Advisory Committee” means the Interim Advisory Committee on School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions appointed under section 2;

• “contract of employment”, in relation to a teacher, means the contract, whether a contract of service or for services, under which he performs his duties as teacher;

• “school teacher” means—

  1. (a)

     a teacher in a primary or secondary school maintained by a local education authority

  2. (aa)

     F1a teacher in a grant-maintained school;, or

  3. (b)

     a person employed by a local education authority as a teacher in the provision of primary or secondary education,

  other than a person employed as a teacher in an establishment maintained by a local authority in the exercise of a social services function;

• “teacher in further education” means a teacher paid by a local education authority who is—

  1. (a)

     employed in an establishment of further education, or

  2. (b)

     otherwise employed by a local education authority for the purposes of their functions relating to further education,

  other than a teacher seconded to a body which reimburses the employing authority the amount of his salary.

This Act shall be construed as one with the M1Education Act 1944.