Regulation 3

After regulation 6A there shall be inserted the following regulation:—

“6B

(1)

The Secretary of State may pay grant to any person other than a local education authority in respect of approved expenditure incurred or to be incurred by that person for or in connection with the carrying out of any assessment for the purpose of determining whether a person who has completed a training programme at an independent school in Wales meets the standards specified by the Secretary of State.

(2)

The reference in paragraph (1) to a training programme is a reference to a training programme approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of paragraph 10 of Schedule 3 to the Education (Teachers) Regulations 1993^f1, and the reference in paragraph (1) to the standards specified by the Secretary of State is a reference to the standards so specified, for the purposes of paragraph 10 of that Schedule, as the standards required of a person who seeks to become a qualified teacher.”.