{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teachers-qualifications-and-induction-arrangements-and-special-educational-needs-co-ordinators-amendment-regulations-2016/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1123",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Teachers’ Qualifications and Induction Arrangements and Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators) (Amendment) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teachers-qualifications-and-induction-arrangements-and-special-educational-needs-co-ordinators-amendment-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Education (School Teachers’ Qualifications) (England) Regulations 2003",
  "text": "(1) The Education (School Teachers’ Qualifications) (England) Regulations 2003 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 3 (Interpretation), after the definition of “the 2003 Specified Work Regulations”, insert—\n““The 2015 European Union Regulations” means the European Union (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) Regulations 2015;”.\n(3) After regulation 9 (Mandatory Qualifications for teachers of pupils who are both hearing and visually impaired), insert—\n“Status of teachers from other European states who are qualified only to teach pupils with special educational needs\n9A. (1) A person described in paragraph 8A of Part 1 of Schedule 2 is a qualified teacher only for the purposes of teaching in a special school or a specialist unit.\n(2) In this regulation, “specialist unit” means an arrangement—\n(i) within a school maintained by a local authority which is not a special school; and\n(ii) in which children with special educational needs are taught wholly or mainly within classes designated for such children;”.\n(4) In paragraph 8 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 (Qualified Teacher Status Requirements), for “the European Union (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) Regulations 2015” substitute “the 2015 European Union Regulations”.\n(5) After paragraph 8 of Part 1 of Schedule 2, insert—\n“8A. (1) The person is—\n(a) entitled to partial access to the profession of school teacher pursuant to Part 2 and Chapters 1, 2 and 4 of Part 3 of the 2015 European Union Regulations by virtue of Part 1 of those Regulations; and\n(b) qualified only to teach pupils with special educational needs in the person’s home State;\n(2) In this paragraph, “home State” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the 2015 European Union Regulations.”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 19.12.2016, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/1662; the definition of “school” in regulation 3 was amended by S.I. 2010/1172; Schedule 2, paragraph 8 was substituted by S.I. 2007/2782 and amended by S.I. 2015/2059; there are other amendments to S.I. 2003/1662 which are not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2015/2059; amended by S.I. 2016/696."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "“Special school” is defined in section 337 of the Education Act 1996 (c.56); section 337 was substituted by the Children and Families Act 2014 (c.6), Schedule 3, Part 1, paragraphs 1 and 36. Section 212(2) and (3)(f) of the Education Act 2002 (c.32) provides that sections 119 to 146 of that Act are to be construed as if those provisions were contained in the Education Act 1996."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "“Special educational needs” is defined in section 20 of the Children and Families Act 2014 (c.6); section 83(7) of that Act provides that the provisions of Part 3 of the Act, which include section 20, are to be read as if they were contained in the Education Act 1996 (c.56) (except so far as they amend other Acts)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1123/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:17:57.905642+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."
}