appropriate personmeans– (a) before 1st September 1999– (a) in the case of a person employed at an aided school within the meaning of section 32 of the 1996 Act or at a grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school, the local education authority, and (ii) in the case of any other employee, the person by whom he was employed;
the principal regulationsmeans the Teachers (Compensation for Redundancy and Premature Retirement) Regulations 1997.