
1 
This Order may be cited as the Teacher Training Agency (Additional Functions) (No. 2) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st September 2000.
2 

(1) In this Order—
 “authority” means a local education authority;
 “graduate teacher” means an unqualified teacher who—
(a) has been granted an authorisation under Part II of Schedule 2 to the Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) Regulations 1999, or
(b) participates in a training programme referred to in paragraph 9 of Schedule 3 to those Regulations; and
 “school which has a delegated budget” means a school which has a delegated budget within the meaning of Part II of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.
(2) In this Order, a reference to employing a graduate teacher includes engaging a graduate teacher to provide his services as a teacher otherwise than under a contract of employment.
3 
In addition to their other functions the Teacher Training Agency may pay grants by way of incentives to encourage the bodies or institutions referred to in article 4 to recruit, employ and secure the provision of training for graduate teachers seeking to become qualified teachers, subject to any terms or conditions which the Agency would be able to impose under section 5 of the Education Act 1994 if the grants were payable under that section.
4 
The bodies or institutions are—
(a) the governing body of a school maintained by an authority which has a delegated budget;
(b) an authority;
(c) the governing body of a special school not maintained by an authority; and
(d) the person maintaining a city technology college, city college for the technology of the arts or city academy.
Jacqui Smith
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Education and Employment
8th August 2000