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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-teachers-regulations-1989/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-teachers-regulations-1989/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1319",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Teachers) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-teachers-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Employment of teachers of pupils who are both hearing and visually impaired",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and regulation 18, a person shall not be a qualified teacher for the purpose of employment at a school as a teacher of a class of pupils who are both hearing and visually impaired (otherwise than to give instruction in a craft, trade or domestic subject) unless, in addition to being a qualified teacher in accordance with Schedule 5, he possesses a qualification approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of this regulation.\n(2) A person who possesses a qualification approved under regulation 15 or 16 shall be a qualified teacher for the purpose mentioned in paragraph (1) notwithstanding that he does not possess a qualification approved for the purpose of that paragraph where the authority or other body are satisfied that no teacher with such a qualification is available to teach the class in question.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1319/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:39:45.139000+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}