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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-induction-arrangements-for-school-teachers-wales-regulations-2003/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2003/543",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (Wales) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-induction-arrangements-for-school-teachers-wales-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/8",
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  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Periods of employment counting towards an induction period",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3) any period of employment on or after 1 September 2003 as a qualified teacher in a school in Wales to which regulation 6(1) applies of not less than one school term in duration counts towards an induction period.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3) any period of employment on or after 1 September 2003 as a qualified teacher in a sixth form college in Wales to which regulation 6(1) applies of not less than one term in duration counts towards an induction period.\n(3) No period of employment as a supply teacher in Wales counts towards an induction period unless the head teacher of the school or sixth form college so agrees before the start of such period.\n(4) Any period of employment on or after 1 September 2003 at a school or sixth form college in England counts towards an induction period if it would count towards an induction period under England’s Induction Regulations.\n(5) Except as provided for in paragraph (1), (2) or (4) no period of employment as a teacher counts towards an induction period.",
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      "affecting_title": "The Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2004"
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      "affecting_title": "The Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2004/872",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2004"
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    {
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      "affecting": "wsi/2004/872",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2004"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2003/543/regulation/8",
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  "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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