Standards in Scotland’s Schools etc. Act 2000

47 Further provision as to keeping of register of teachers

(1) After section 6 of the 1965 Act there shall be inserted—

“6A Further provision as to keeping of register

(1) After consultation with the Council, the Scottish Ministers may, by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the Scottish Parliament, make regulations requiring rules under section 6(4) of this Act—

(a) to make such provision as to the form and manner in which the register is to be kept as shall be specified in the regulations; and

(b) to prescribe matters (being matters specified in the regulations) which are to be recorded in the register.

(2) The Council shall, within one month after any regulations made under subsection (1) above come into force, make and publish such rules, revocations or amendments as the regulations make requisite.”.

(2) In the said section 6—

(a) in subsection (4), for paragraph (c) there shall be substituted—

“(c) provide for the removal of a name from the register on a failure—

(i) to pay a prescribed fee and for its re-registration in the register on the making of the prescribed application in that behalf and on payment of that fee and any additional fee;

(ii) to supply information, or details of a change in information, within such reasonable period as may be intimated to the person by the Council provided that such intimation was given after the person had already failed to supply timeously, under subsection (5C) below, the information or details and for its re-registration in the register on the making of the prescribed application in that behalf, the supplying of the information or details and the payment of a fee,

prescribed in respect of the re-registration;”; and

(b) after subsection (5B) there shall be inserted—

“(5C) A person whose name is contained in the register shall, within such period as may be prescribed, supply the Council with—

(a) details of any change in the information recorded against that name in the register if it is a change of such kind as may be prescribed;

(b) such information as may be prescribed, being information of a kind not already so recorded.”.