{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/head-teachers-qualifications-and-registration-wales-regulations-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2005/1227",
  "legislation_title": "The Head Teachers' Qualifications and Registration (Wales) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/head-teachers-qualifications-and-registration-wales-regulations-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which apply in relation to Wales, make provision requiring first time head teachers of schools maintained by a local education authority and special schools which are not so maintained and who are appointed as a head teacher on or after 1 September 2005 to:\n(i) hold the National Professional Qualification for Headship in Wales or its equivalent in England, Scotland or Northern Ireland;\n(ii) be qualified teachers; and\n(iii) be registered as teachers.\nMigrant workers from other Member States within the European Union, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein or Switzerland will be required to hold equivalent qualifications.\nBy virtue of regulation 8, a person who is carrying out the functions of a head teacher pending the appointment of a head teacher, or in the absence of a head teacher, ('an acting head teacher') is not a head teacher for the purposes of these Regulations.\nThese Regulations do not apply to Pupil Referral Units.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/1227/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:06:30.610713+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."
}