Regulation 2 Amendment of the Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (Wales) Regulations 1999

The Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (Wales) Regulations 1999^f1 are amended as follows:—

(a)

In regulation 3(2) insert after the definition of “company”—

““the Council” (“y Cyngor”) means the General Teaching Council for Wales;”.

(b)

In Part I of Schedule 3—

(i)

insert after paragraph 1(1)(b):—

“(ba)

if, the Council being satisfied on or after 1st September 2003 that he or she is a person mentioned in paragraphs 2 to 6 or 8 and, if he or she is a person mentioned in paragraph 8 that the statement submitted by the States of Guernsey Education Council is correct, he or she has received written notification from the Council that he or she is a qualified teacher; or”;

(ii)

insert in paragraph 1(1) after the words “under paragraph (b)” the words “or (ba)”, and after the words “from such date as the Assembly” the words “or the Council”;

(iii)

insert after paragraph 1(2)—

“(2A)

Subject to sub-paragraph (4), the Council may provide for a person mentioned in paragraphs 2 to 6 or 8 to be a qualified teacher from a date not more than one year prior to the date of notification to the extent that that is appropriate having regard to all the circumstances of the case.”;

(iv)

in paragraph 1(4) for the words “ the Assembly shall not provide ” substitute the words “neither the Assembly nor the Council shall provide ”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1999/2817 (W.18) as amended by S.I. 2002/2938(W279).