# The Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (Wales) Regulations 1999, Paragraph 9

Extent: E+W

(1) The person—
(a) is in the opinion of the Assembly a suitable person to be a teacher at a school;
(b) has satisfactorily completed a training programme;
(c) has been assessed by a competent person as meeting the specified standards;
(d) holds a first degree or equivalent qualification granted by a United Kingdom institution, or a qualification of an equivalent standard thereto granted by an educational institution elsewhere;
(e) has attained in English and mathematics the standard required to obtain Grade C in the General Certificate of Secondary Education;
(f) where the person was born on or after 1st December 1979 and during his period of training taught pupils aged below 11 years, he has attained in a single science subject or in a combined science subject the standard required to obtain Grade C in the General Certificate of Secondary Education; and
(g) has attained the age of 24 years.
(2) In this paragraph—
(a) a “competent person” means, in a case where the organiser of the training programme is an accredited institution, that institution, and in any other case means the person approved by the Assembly for the purpose of carrying out the assessment as referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(c);
(b) the “specified standards” means the standards, applying as at the time of assessment, specified by the Assembly as the standards required of a person who seeks to become a qualified teacher;
(c) a “training programme” means a programme of training of not less than three months in a school, other than a pupil referral unit, or in an independent school following an application made by the body that is the organiser of the training to the Assembly which shall include such particulars as the Assembly may determine, and provided the Assembly has approved the programme as a programme leading to qualified teacher status prior to the person’s commencement on it;
(d) “United Kingdom institution” has the same meaning as in paragraph 2(2)(a).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/1999/2817/schedule/3/paragraph/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-teachers-qualifications-and-health-standards-wales-regulations-1999/schedule-3/paragraph-9
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