{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-induction-arrangements-for-school-teachers-england-regulations-2008/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-induction-arrangements-for-school-teachers-england-regulations-2008/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/657",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (England) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-induction-arrangements-for-school-teachers-england-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Requirement to serve an induction period",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the exceptions in Schedule 2, no qualified teacher is to be employed as a teacher at a relevant school unless that person has satisfactorily completed an induction period in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations in a school or a further education institution to which regulation 8(1) refers.\n(2) A person is employed for the purposes of paragraph (1) if that person is engaged to provide services as a teacher, whether under a contract of employment or otherwise, in accordance with section 43(2) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 1.9.2008, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For the definition of “relevant school” see section 19(10)(b) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (c. 30) as amended by the Education Act 2002 (c. 32) Schedule 21 paragraph 85(c)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1998 c. 30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/513",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/513",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/657",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (England) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/657/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-13T03:34:03.010384+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."
}