2 Interpretation
1 In these Regulations—
“appraisal statement” means an appraisal statement prepared under regulation 14 in respect of a school teacher;
“external adviser” means a person appointed as such by a school governing body being one of the persons on a list of advisers in relation to the appraisal of head teachers maintained by the Secretary of State;
“school” means a community, voluntary, foundation, community special, or foundation special school;
“school day”, in relation to a school, means any day on which at that school there is a school session;
“school teacher” means a teacher employed at one or 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; and
“school which has a religious character” means a foundation or voluntary school designated as a school having such a character under section 69(3) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.
The order currently in force under this provision in relation to England is S.I.1999/2432.
2 Any reference in these Regulations to—
(a) a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations; and
(b) a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in the regulation in which the reference appears.