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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-restriction-of-employment-amendment-regulations-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1269",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Restriction of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-restriction-of-employment-amendment-regulations-2001",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese regulations amend the Education (Restriction of Employment) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2418) to provide for the Secretary of State to refer certain cases to the General Teaching Councils for England or the General Teaching Council for Wales (“the Councils”) and for the Councils to provide certain information to the Secretary of State.\nA reference will be made by the Secretary of State where it is alleged that a registered teacher is, or it appears to the Secretary of State that he may be, guilty of unacceptable professional conduct or has been convicted of a relevant offence and the circumstances of the allegation does not raise any issue concerning the safety and welfare of persons under the age of 19 (new regulation 5A(1)).\nThe Councils are required to provide the relevant documentation to the Secretary of State for his consideration where those documents raise an issue concerning the safety and welfare of person under the age of 19, where such an issue arises during the consideration by a committee of the Councils established by the General Teaching Council for England (Disciplinary Functions) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1268) and the General Teaching Council for Wales (Disciplinary Functions) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1424) and where a prohibition order is made by the Council on the grounds of unacceptable professional conduct or conviction of a relevant offence (new regulation 5A(2)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1269/note",
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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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