The General Teaching Council for Wales (Additional Functions) (Amendment) Order 2006

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 1341 (W.132)

EDUCATION, WALES

The General Teaching Council for Wales (Additional Functions) (Amendment) Order 2006

Made

16 May 2006

Coming into force

31 May 2006

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 7(1) and (4) and 42(6) and (7) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998(1) and now vested in the National Assembly for Wales(2), the National Assembly for Wales, being of the opinion that the General Teaching Council for Wales may, having regard to their general objectives, appropriately discharge the additional functions hereby conferred and having carried out such consultation as appears to it to be appropriate, makes the following Order:

Title and commencement

1.  The title of this Order is the General Teaching Council for Wales (Additional Functions) (Amendment) Order 2006 and it comes into force on 31 May 2006.

Amendment of the General Teaching Council for Wales (Additional Functions) Order 2000

2.  The General Teaching Council for Wales (Additional Functions) Order 2000(3)is amended as follows-

(a) in Part I of the Schedule, in paragraph 2 after “(c)”there is inserted “, (3B)”; and

(b) in Part II of the Schedule, after paragraph 20 there is inserted-

“20A.   Where a person is a qualified teacher who is ineligible for registration pursuant to section 3(3B) of the 1998 Act(4)(ie. because the Council are not satisfied as to the person's suitability to be a teacher), particulars of the grounds on which the decision to refuse the application was taken.”.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(5)

D. Elis-Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

16 May 2006

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends The General Teaching Council for Wales (Additional Functions) Order 2000. That Order requires the General Teaching Council for Wales (“the Council”) to maintain records relating to specified categories of persons. This Order adds to those categories persons ineligible for registration because the Council are not satisfied as to their suitability to be teachers. It also requires the Council to include in its records particulars of the grounds on which it was decided that a person is not suitable to be a teacher.

(1)

1998 c. 30. The relevant provisions apply in relation to the General Teaching Council for Wales by virtue of sections 8 and 9 of the Act and the General Teaching Council for Wales Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2911).

(2)

See the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I 1999/672).

(3)

S.I. 2000/1941 (W.139) amended by S.I. 2001/2497 (W.201) and S.I. 2005/68 (W.6).

(4)

Section 3(3B) of the 1998 Act was inserted by paragraph 3(5) of Schedule 12 to the Education Act 2002 (c. 32).

(5)

1998 c. 38.