Explanatory note

These Regulations introduce a requirement that from 1st June 2001 all teachers at schools maintained by local education authorities and non-maintained special schools in England are to be registered by the General Teaching Council for England under section 3 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998.

The regulations make exceptions to this requirement for teachers who do not have qualified teacher status, some teachers who do not teach children of compulsory school age and teachers undertaking restricted duties pending an induction appeal. A teacher taking up a teaching post on or after 1st June 2001 which is his first post as a qualified teacher or his first such post following a break in service of one school term or more is also excepted from the registration requirement for a period of 4 weeks provided he made an application for registration beforehand.