The General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland (Registration of Teachers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

PART II REGISTRATION OF TEACHERS

Disqualification from registration

3.  For the purposes of Article 35 of the 1998 Order, a person is not eligible for registration if he is not eligible to teach, or disqualified from being a teacher in any school, by virtue of –

(a) section 3(3)(d) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998(1);

(b) section 11 of the Teaching Council (Scotland) Act 1965(2);

(c) the Teachers' (Eligibility) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997(3); or

(d) regulations made under Article 36 of the 1998 Order.

Applications for registration

4.—(1) An application for registration shall include –

(a) the teacher number assigned to the applicant by the Department of Education;

(b) the applicant’s full name;

(c) the applicant’s date of birth;

(d) the applicant’s home address or other contact address; and

(e) the date on which the applicant qualified as a teacher.

(2) The Council may make further provision as to-

(a) the form and manner in which applications for registration are to be made; and

(b) the documentary and other evidence which is to accompany applications for registration.

Registration on establishment of the register

5.—(1) On the establishment of the register, the Council may register persons eligible for registration who have not made applications for registration.

(2) The Council shall send written confirmation of their registration to all persons registered under paragraph (1).

(3) The Council shall upon request provide free of charge a copy of the information recorded on the register against the name to a person registered under paragraph (1), if that person so requests.

Content of register

6.—(1) There shall be recorded in the register against the names of those registered in it the matters listed in Schedule 1 for such period (if any) as is specified in that Schedule.

(2) The Council may make provision as to additional matters to be recorded in the register.

Division of register into separate parts

7.  The Council may make provision as to the division of the register into separate parts.

Amending entries on the register

8.  The Council may make provision as to the restoration and alteration of entries on the register, and the transfer of entries between different parts of the register.

Charging of registration fees

9.  The Council may make provision –

(a) to charge a fee fixed by it with the approval of the Department in respect of

(i) applications for registration or for the restoration of entries to the register; and

(ii) the retention of entries in the register;

(b) for there to be exceptions where fees are not charged; and

(c) for it to refuse an application for registration until the appropriate fee has been paid.

Removal of entries from the register

10.  The Council may make provision as to the removal of entries from the register where the persons concerned have ceased to be eligible for registration, have failed to pay a registration fee, or otherwise.

Issue and form of certificates of registration

11.  The Council may make provision as to the issuing of certificates of registration to registered teachers, and as to the form of such certificates.

Public access to the register

12.—(1) The Council may, on request, inform a member of the public whether or not a person is a registered teacher.

(2) The Council may publish the names of teachers on the register in such a manner as the Council may determine.

(1)

1998 c. 30

(2)

1965 c. 19. (Section 11 was amended by Section 50 of the Standards in Scotland’s Schools etc (Scotland) Act 2000

(3)

S.R. 1997 No. 312