{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/requirements-for-teachers-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/requirements-for-teachers-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2005/355",
  "legislation_title": "The Requirements for Teachers (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/requirements-for-teachers-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Requirement to employ registered teachers",
  "text": "(1) Every education authority shall, in discharging their functions under section 1 of the 1980 Act and section 2(1) of the 2000 Act employ only a registered teacher ... as a teacher.\n(1A) The condition set out in subparagraph (1B) is prescribed for the purpose of section 74(1) in respect of grant-aided schools.\n(1B) Managers of grant-aided schools must employ only a registered teacher as a teacher.\n(2) “Registered teacher” in these Regulations means a teacher whose particulars are recorded in the register maintained by the General Teaching Council for Scotland under the Public Services Reform (General Teaching Council for Scotland) Order 2011 and includes a teacher whose registration has been marked as restricted on the basis however that, for the duration of that teacher’s registration being marked as restricted, such a teacher may only be employed as a teacher–\n(a) by his or her existing employer, and\n(b) in his or her existing teaching post.\n(1A) The condition set out in subparagraph (1B) is prescribed for the purpose of section 74(1) in respect of grant-aided schools.\n(1B) Managers of grant-aided schools must employ only a registered teacher as a teacher.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) omitted (1.10.2017) by virtue of The Requirements for Teachers (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/170), regs. 1, 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1A)(1B) inserted (1.10.2017) by The Requirements for Teachers (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/170), regs. 1, 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(2) substituted (2.4.2012) by The Public Services Reform (General Teaching Council for Scotland) Order 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/215), art. 2, sch. 6 para. 7(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4(2) substituted (2.4.2012) by The Public Services Reform (General Teaching Council for Scotland) Order 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/215), art. 2, sch. 6 para. 7(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 30.9.2005, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/355/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:24:59.380487+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."
}