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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teaching-council-scotland-election-scheme-1989-approval-order-1989/schedule/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teaching-council-scotland-election-scheme-1989-approval-order-1989/schedule/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2308",
  "legislation_title": "The Teaching Council (Scotland) Election Scheme 1989 Approval Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teaching-council-scotland-election-scheme-1989-approval-order-1989",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "(1) In this Scheme unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Teaching Council (Scotland) Act 1965;\n“arbiter” means the person appointed on or before the 31st day of October in each election year by the Sheriff of Lothian and Borders at Edinburgh on the application of the Council;\n“the Council” means the General Teaching Council for Scotland constituted under section 1 of the Act;\n“election year” means the year 1990 and every fourth year thereafter;\n“register” means the register established by the Council under section 6 of the Act and “registered” shall be construed accordingly;\n“Registrar” means the registrar employed by the Council under paragraph 14(1) of Schedule I to the Act;\n“Returning Officer” means a person appointed as returning officer under article 3 of this Scheme and includes a Deputy Returning Officer so appointed;\n“teacher” means a registered teacher, whether in employment as a teacher or not, other than a principal of a college of education in Scotland.\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a “category of employment” shall be construed as a reference to a category of educational establishment mentioned in paragraph 1(2) of Schedule I to the Act and any reference, in relation to a person, to category of employment shall be construed as a reference to that one of the said categories of educational establishment in which the person is employed, or has chosen as the category for purposes of the election, as provided for in article 2(3)(b) below.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1 was substituted by S.I. 1970/523"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1702",
      "affecting_title": "The Teaching Council (Scotland) Election Amendment Scheme 1994 Approval Order 1994"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}