{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pay-and-conditions-act-1987-repealed-631992/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pay-and-conditions-act-1987-repealed-631992/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/1",
  "legislation_title": "Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Act 1987 (repealed 6.3.1992)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pay-and-conditions-act-1987-repealed-631992",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act—\n“Advisory Committee” means the Interim Advisory Committee on School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions appointed under section 2;\n“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;\n“school teacher” means—\n(a)a teacher in a primary or secondary school maintained by a local education authority\n(aa)a teacher in a grant-maintained school;, or\n(b)a person employed by a local education authority as a teacher in the provision of primary or secondary education,\nother than a person employed as a teacher in an establishment maintained by a local authority in the exercise of a social services function;\n“teacher in further education” means a teacher paid by a local education authority who is—\n(a)employed in an establishment of further education, or\n(b)otherwise employed by a local education authority for the purposes of their functions relating to further education,\nother than a teacher seconded to a body which reimburses the employing authority the amount of his salary.\n(2) This Act shall be construed as one with the Education Act 1944.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 7(1)(aa) inserted by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 231(7), 235(6), 237(1), Sch. 12 para. 39"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1944 c 31."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/1/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:53:49.534604+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."
}