# The Education (Specified Work and Registration) (England) Regulations 2003, Paragraph 5: Overseas Trained Teachers


(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1663/schedule/2/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-specified-work-and-registration-england-regulations-2003/schedule-2/paragraph-5
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