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- s. 3(3)(a) repealed by 2006 c. 47 Sch. 10
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- Act Education Acts modified by 2006 c. 40 Sch. 6 para. 3(3)
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- Act modified by 2005 c. 18 s. 96(2)
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- S.I. 2011/1725 Sch. para. 6 amendment to earlier commencing SI 2008/3267
- S.I. 2011/1728 art. 2 commences (2006 c. 50)
- S.S.I. 2005/419 art. 2 commences (2005 asp 6)
3 Registration of teachers.E+W
(1)The Council shall establish and maintain a register of teachers (“the register”).
(2)The register shall contain the name of every person who is eligible for registration and applies to be registered in the register in accordance with regulations made under section 4.
(3)A person is eligible for registration if he is a qualified teacher [F1within the meaning of section 218(2) of the M1Education Reform Act 1988] and he is not for the time being—
[F2(a)subject to a direction under section 142(1)(a) of the Education Act 2002 (prohibition from teaching, &c.),]
(b)subject to a disciplinary order made under Schedule 2 to this Act by virtue of which he is not eligible for registration, or
(c)disqualified from being employed as a teacher in any school by virtue of an order made—
(i)by an Independent Schools Tribunal under section 470 of the M2Education Act 1996, or
(ii)by the Secretary of State under section 471 of that Act, or
(d)(subject to such exceptions as may be prescribed by, or determined by the Secretary of State under, regulations) ineligible for registration as a teacher, or disqualified from being a teacher in any school, by virtue of any prescribed provision of the law of Scotland or of Northern Ireland.
(4)Except in such circumstances as may be prescribed, a person is not eligible for registration if, having served an induction period in accordance with regulations under section 19, he has failed to complete it satisfactorily for the purposes of those regulations.
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F1Words in s. 3(3) repealed (19.12.2002 for W. and otherwiseprosp.) by 2002 c. 32, ss. 215, 216, Sch. 21 para. 76(a), Sch. 22 Pt. 3 (with ss. 210(8), 214(4)); S.I. 2002/3185, art. 4, Sch. Pt. I
F2S. 3(3)(a) substituted (31.3.2003 for W and otherwiseprosp.) by 2002 c. 32, ss. 215(1), 216, Sch. 21 para. 76(b) (with ss. 210(8), 214(4)); S.I. 2002/3185, art. 5, Sch. Pt. II
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I1S. 3 wholly in force at 1.9.2000; s. 3 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 46(4); s. 3(3)(d)(4) in force for certain purposes at 5.4.2000 and for remaining purposes 1.9.2000 and s. 3(1)(2)(3)(a)-(c) in force at 1.9.2000 by S.I. 2000/970, arts. 2, 3
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