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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 12The General Teaching Councils for England and Wales

Part 1Amendments of Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998

3(1)Section 3 (which relates to the registration of teachers with the General Teaching Council for England, and is applied by section 9 in relation to the General Teaching Council for Wales) is amended as follows.

(2)In subsection (1) for “a register of teachers” there is substituted “a register for the purposes of this Chapter”.

(3)In subsection (2), for “registration” there is substituted “full or provisional registration”.

(4)In subsection (3) for “registration”, where first occurring and in paragraph (b), there is substituted “full registration”.

(5)After subsection (3) there is inserted—

(3A)A person is eligible for provisional registration if he satisfies such conditions as may be prescribed.

(3B)A person is not eligible for provisional registration or full registration unless at the relevant time the Council are or were satisfied as to his suitability to be a teacher.

(3C)In subsection (3B) “the relevant time” means—

(a)in relation to an applicant for provisional registration or an applicant for full registration who is already registered with provisional registration, the time of provisional registration, or

(b)in the case of an applicant for full registration who is not already registered with provisional registration, the time of full registration.

(3D)Regulations may provide that any prescribed description of person is, or is not, to be taken to be suitable to be a teacher.

(6)In subsection (4), for “registration” there is substituted “full registration”.