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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-teachers-qualifications-and-health-standards-england-amendment-regulations-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2704",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2000",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2166) to enable certain teachers employed in independent schools to be awarded qualified teacher status.\nA teacher is eligible for qualified teacher status if he is currently employed as a teacher in an independent school, he has been assessed as meeting the standards for qualified teacher status, he holds one of the qualifications specified in these Regulations and he was employed as a teacher at an independent school before 1st September 1989. The specified qualifications are degrees and other qualifications approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of the award of qualified teacher status before 1st January 1974 and degrees approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of the award of qualified teacher status before 1st September 1989. Qualified teacher status may be awarded to such teachers on the recommendation of the head teacher or principal of the independent school at which they are employed, or in the case of the head teacher or principal of an independent school, on the recommendation of the chairman of the school’s governing body, or if none the school’s proprietor.",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2704/note",
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  "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."
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