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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-teachers-qualifications-and-health-standards-wales-regulations-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/1999/2817",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (Wales) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-teachers-qualifications-and-health-standards-wales-regulations-1999",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations largely re-enact existing provisions in the Education (Teachers) Regulations 1993. They also introduce new provisions which tighten checks relating to the employment and qualifications of teachers.\nThe Regulations contain a variety of measures relating to the employment and qualifications of teachers in schools as well as changes resulting from the new school framework set out in the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. They will:\nmake provision for the staffing of maintained schools and certain further education institutions;\nrequire employers of teachers and certain other staff at maintained schools and further education institutions to be satisfied as to the health and physical and mental capacities of such staff;\nreflect the provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995;\nprovide for teachers employed in maintained schools to be qualified teachers, subject to some exception, and make special provision for teachers of hearing impaired, visually impaired and hearing and visually impaired pupils;\nprovide that a person who is a qualified teacher for the purposes of Regulations concerning teachers' qualification to be made in relation to England is to be treated equally as a qualified teacher in Wales.\nThe Regulations do not supersede the provisions in relation to barring contained in the 1993 Education (Teachers) Regulations 1993.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/1999/2817/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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