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Paragraph 5 Overseas Trained Teachers

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(1)

Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a person who is not a qualified teacher may carry out work specified in regulation 6 in a school (other than a pupil referral unit) if he has successfully completed a programme of professional training for teachers in any country outside the United Kingdom and which is recognised as such a programme of training by the competent authority in that country.

(2)

In the case of a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (1), this paragraph shall not apply after the expiry of a period of four years commencing on either—

(a)

the day on which he first carries out work specified in regulation 6 in a school by virtue of this paragraph, or

(b)

the day on which he was first employed as a teacher in a school by virtue of paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to the 1999 Regulations.