Regulation 2 Compulsory registration with the General Teaching Council for Wales

(1)

Subject to paragraph (2), no person who is a qualified teacher shall be employed as a teacher at a school in Wales unless that person is registered in accordance with section 3 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998^f1, by the General Teaching Council for Wales.

(2)

Paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to a person employed as a teacher at a school if that person is employed solely in the provision of –

(a)

part-time education to persons over compulsory school age only; or

(b)

full-time education to persons who have attained the age of 19 years only; or

(c)

both such part-time and full-time education.

(3)

In this regulation —

(a)

“qualified teacher” has the same meaning as in section 218(2) of the Education Reform Act 1988^f2;

(b)

references to a person employed as a teacher include references to a person who is engaged to provide his or her services as a teacher otherwise than under a contract of employment; and

(c)

references to a school are references:

(i)

to a school maintained by a local education authority within the meaning of section 142(1) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998^f3; or

(ii)

to a special school within the meaning of section 337(1) of the Education Act 1996^f4 which is not so maintained.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1998 c. 30.
f2: At the time of making these Regulations, the regulations in force for Wales under this provision were the Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (Wales) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2817 (W.18)); at the time of making these Regulations, the regulations in force for England under this provision were the Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2166).
f3: 1998 c. 31.
f4: 1996 c. 56; section 337(1) is amended by paragraph 80 of Schedule 30 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.