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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-head-teachers-qualifications-amendment-england-regulations-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/875",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Head Teachers' Qualifications) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-head-teachers-qualifications-amendment-england-regulations-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThe Education (Head Teachers' Qualifications) (England) Regulations 2003 provide that a first time head teacher of a maintained school in England must hold a prescribed qualification. These amendment Regulations add to the list of prescribed qualifications, which now includes:\n(a) the National Professional Qualification for Headship;\n(b) its equivalent in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland; or\n(c) a comparable qualification obtained elsewhere in the European Economic Area (which includes the member states of the European Community, Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein) or Switzerland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/875/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:01:51.231031+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."
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