Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires—

• “appraising body” means—

  (a)

  in the case of a teacher employed at a school maintained by a local education authority, the local education authority;

  (b)

  in the case of a teacher employed at a grant-maintained school, the governing body of the school;

• “appraisal record” means the appraisal statements prepared under Regulation 10(2) in respect of a school teacher;

• “qualified teacher” has the meaning assigned thereto by Regulation 13 of the Education (Teachers) Regulations 1989(1);

• “probationary teacher” means a teacher to whom Schedule 6 to the Education (Teachers) Regulations 1989 applies;

• “school” means a school maintained by a local education authority, or a grantmaintained school;

• “school teacher” means a qualified teacher, other than a probationary teacher, employed at any one school maintained by a local education authority or at any one grantmaintained school to work either full-time or not less than forty per cent of full-time, except on a contract of less than one school year’s duration.