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The Teacher Training Agency (Additional Functions) Order 1995

S.I. 1995/601 · Made 6 March 1995

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EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 6th March 1995

Laid before Parliament 8th March 1995

Coming into force 1st April 1995

Being of the opinion that the Teacher Training Agency may, having regard to their general objectives, appropriately discharge the additional functions hereby conferred and having carried out such consultation as appears to her to be appropriate pursuant to section 16(3) of the Education Act 1994f1, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 16(1) and 23(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1994 c. 30.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Conferring of additional functions
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Teacher Training Agency (Additional Functions) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 1st April 1995.

2Conferring of additional functions

The following additional functions are hereby conferred on the Teacher Training Agency —

(a)

the licensing or otherwise authorising of persons who are not qualified teachers to be employed as teachers at schools and functions incidental or supplemental thereto exercised under regulations from time to time in force under section 218(1)(a) and (3) of the Education Reform Act 1988f1; and

(b)

functions exercised under regulations from time to time in force under section 218 (2B) of the Education Reform Act 1988f2 in connection with requirements imposed by those regulations on persons carrying on city technology colleges or city colleges for the technology of the arts as to the training and teaching experience of persons employed as teachers at such colleges who seek to become (in relation to schools) qualified teachers.

Signature

Gillian Shephard

Secretary of State for Education

6th March 1995

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order confers on the Teacher Training Agency, established under section 1 of the Education Act 1994, additional functions with regard to the licensing or otherwise authorising of unqualified teachers to be employed as teachers at schools and in connection with requirements imposed on persons carrying on city technology colleges or city colleges for the technology of the arts as to the training and teaching experience of persons who seek to become qualified teachers. Such functions are exercised under regulations from time to time in force under section 218(1)(a), (2B) and (3) of the Education Reform Act 1988. On 1st April 1995 the Education (Teachers) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/602) amend the Education (Teachers) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/543, amended by S.I. 1993/1969, 1994/222 and section 14(2) of the Education Act 1994 and modified by S.I. 1994/2103) and make provision for the exercise of the functions conferred on the Teacher Training Agency by this Order.