{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-workforce-council-accreditation-of-initial-teacher-training-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-9",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2017/165",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Workforce Council (Accreditation of Initial Teacher Training) (Wales) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-workforce-council-accreditation-of-initial-teacher-training-wales-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Eligibility for appointments",
  "text": "(1) Members of the Committee and Appeals Committee are to be appointed from persons—\n(a) who are currently working, or were so working within the last 2 years, in the provision of education;\n(b) who have experience of the management of schools or further education institutions;\n(c) who have experience of working in local authorities;\n(d) who have experience of the delivery or provision of initial school teacher training;\n(e) who are registered in the category of school teacher in the Register;\n(f) such other persons as the Council consider appropriate having regard to their expertise and experience.\n(2) No person is eligible for appointment to the Committee or the Appeals Committee where—\n(a) the person is barred from regulated activity relating to children within the meaning of section 3(2) of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006;\n(b) the person is prohibited from teaching by virtue of a direction under section 142(1)(a) of the 2002 Act;\n(c) the person is prohibited from being employed as a teacher by virtue of a prohibition order under section 141B of the 2002 Act;\n(d) a disciplinary order is made in respect of the person under Schedule 2 to the 1998 Act by virtue of which the person becomes ineligible for registration under section 3 of the 1998 Act;\n(e) a disciplinary order is made in respect of the person under section 26 of the 2014 Act by virtue of which the person becomes ineligible for registration under section 9 of the 2014 Act;\n(f) the person is disqualified from being employed as a teacher in any school by virtue of an order made—\n(i) by an Independent Schools Tribunal under section 470 of the 1996 Act, or\n(ii) by the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers under section 471 of the 1996 Act; or\n(g) the person is ineligible for registration as a teacher, or disqualified from being a teacher in any school or further education institution in another part of the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For the definition of “Register” see section 41 of the Education (Wales) Act 2014."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2006 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2002 c. 32. Section 142(1)(a) was repealed by Schedule 10 to the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 3 and Schedule 2 were repealed by Table 2 in paragraph 3 of Part 2 of Schedule 3 to the Education (Wales) Act 2014."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Repealed by section 215(2) of, and Part 3 of Schedule 22 to, the Education Act 2002."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Repealed by section 215(2) of, and Part 3 of Schedule 22 to, the Education Act 2002."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2017/165/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:27:40.558537+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."
}