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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-services-reform-general-teaching-council-for-scotland-order-2011/article-6",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2011/9780111012246",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Services Reform (General Teaching Council for Scotland) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-services-reform-general-teaching-council-for-scotland-order-2011",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "General functions",
  "text": "The GTCS’s general functions are—\n(a) to keep the register;\n(b) to establish (and to review and change as necessary)—\n(i) the standards of education and training appropriate to school teachers;\n(ii) the standards of conduct and professional competence expected of a registered teacher;\n(c) to investigate the fitness to teach of individuals who are, or who are seeking to be, registered;\n(d) to keep itself informed of the education and training of individuals undertaking courses for the education and training of teachers;\n(e) to consider, and to make recommendations to the Scottish Ministers about, matters relating to—\n(i) teachers’ education, training, career development and fitness to teach; and\n(ii) the supply of teachers (except matters of remuneration or conditions of service); and\n(f) to keep such other registers of other individuals working in educational settings as it thinks fit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2011/9780111012246/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:37:17.491830+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}