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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teachers-qualifications-england-regulations-2003/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1662",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Teachers' Qualifications) (England) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teachers-qualifications-england-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Mandatory Qualifications for teachers of pupils who are both hearing and visually impaired",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and regulation 9, a person shall not be a qualified teacher for the purpose of teaching a class of pupils who are both hearing impaired and visually impaired unless in addition to being a qualified teacher in accordance with regulation 5, he possesses a qualification approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of this regulation.\n(2) A person who possesses a qualification approved under regulation 6 or 7 shall be a qualified teacher for the purpose of paragraph (1) if his head teacher is satisfied that no teacher with a qualification approved under paragraph (1) is available to teach the class in question.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1662/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:20:10.294856+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."
}