{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-workforce-council-membership-and-appointment-wales-regulations-2014/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-workforce-council-membership-and-appointment-wales-regulations-2014/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2014/2365",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Workforce Council (Membership and Appointment) (Wales) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-workforce-council-membership-and-appointment-wales-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Eligibility for appointments",
  "text": "No person is eligible for appointment under regulations 6 or 7 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 Education Act 2002;\n(c) the person is prohibited from being employed as a teacher by virtue of a prohibition order under section 141B of the Education Act 2002;\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": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 29.9.2014, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2002 c. 32."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 26 of the 2014 Act is not yet in force at the date these Regulations come into force. It is anticipated that section 26 will be fully commenced on 1 April 2015."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Repealed by section 215(2) of, and Part 3 of Schedule 22 to, the Education Act 2002."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "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/2014/2365/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:37:25.861645+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."
}