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  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Teachers' Prescribed Qualifications, etc) Order 2003",
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  "heading": "School teachers' prescribed qualifications, etc",
  "text": "(1) The following class of persons is prescribed for the purposes of section 122(5)(e) of the Act, namely persons over the age of 18 years, who are required to pass the teacher trainee skills tests in order to satisfy the specified standards in relation to qualifying as a teacher; and who\n(a) would have been notified by the Secretary of State in accordance with paragraph 1(1)(b) of Schedule 3 to the 1999 Regulations for England, as being a person mentioned in paragraphs 2, 7, 7A or 9 of Schedule 3 to those Regulations, or\n(b) are mentioned in paragraphs 7, 9, or 10 of Schedule 2 to the 2003 Qualifications Regulations and would have been awarded qualified teacher status by the General Teaching Council for England in accordance with regulation 10 of those Regulations,\nbut for the fact that they have not passed all the teacher trainee skills tests.\n(2) In this article —\n(a) the “specified standards” means such standards as may be specified from time to time by the Secretary of State as the standards required of a person who seeks to become a qualified teacher.\n(b) the “teacher trainee skills tests” means the literacy, numeracy and information and communications technology teacher trainee skills tests administered by or on behalf of the Teacher Training Agency.",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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