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Paragraph 12

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Persons in respect of whom the recommending authority has submitted to the National Assembly or the Council a recommendation that they should be notified that they are qualified teachers and a statement that —

(a)

on the date of the recommendation they are employed as teachers in an independent school; and

(b)

they have been assessed by the recommending authority as meeting the specified standards; and

(c)

before —

(i)

1st January 1974 they obtained qualifications meeting the requirements of paragraph 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 or 21 of Part 2 of this Schedule, or

(ii)

1st January 1974 they obtained a degree granted by a United Kingdom university or by the Council for National Academic Awards or by a foreign institution, or

(iii)

1st September 1989 they obtained a degree granted by a United Kingdom university or by the Council for National Academic Awards or by a foreign institution in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, botany, zoology, physiology, biochemistry or geology; and

(d)

they were employed as teachers in an independent school or a further education institution before 1st September 1989.

(2)

In this paragraph “recommending authority” means —

(a)

in the case of teachers who are not head teachers or principals, the head teachers or principals of the independent schools at which they are employed to teach; and

(b)

in the case of head teachers or principals, the chair of the governing body of the schools, or if none the proprietor of the schools.