The General Teaching Council for Wales (Functions) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 69 (W.7)

EDUCATION, WALES

The General Teaching Council for Wales (Functions) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Made

18 January 2005

Coming into force

21 January 2005

In the exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 4(1), (2) and (3) and 42(6) and (7) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998(1) and now vested in the National Assembly for Wales(2), and having consulted the General Teaching Council for Wales in accordance with section 42(9) of that Act, the National Assembly for Wales makes the following Regulations:

Name and commencement

1.  These Regulations are called the General Teaching Council for Wales (Functions) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and come into force on 21 January 2005.

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

2.  The General Teaching Council for Wales (Functions) Regulations 2000(3) are amended as follows.

3.  In Schedule 1 —

(a) substitute for paragraph 13 the following —

“13.   If known,

(a) the date on which the teacher took up his or her first post as a qualified teacher;

(b) the date on which the teacher was first employed (if at all) as a supply teacher under paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (Wales) Regulations 2003(4); and

(c) the date on which the teacher was first employed (if at all) as a supply teacher by virtue of regulation 18(2)(5) of the Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (Wales) Regulations 2003.”; and

(b) omit paragraph 14(e) and the preceding “and”.

4.  In Schedule 2 —

(a) substitute for paragraph 5 the following —

“5.   If known,

(a) the date on which the teacher took up his or her first post as a qualified teacher;

(b) the date on which the teacher was first employed (if at all) as a supply teacher under paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (Wales) Regulations 2003; and

(c) the date on which the teacher was first employed (if at all) as a supply teacher by virtue of regulation 18(2) of the Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (Wales) Regulations 2003.”; and

(b) omit paragraph 6(e) and the preceding “and”.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(6)

D. Elis-Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

18 January 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the General Teaching Council for Wales (Functions) Regulations 2000 (“the 2000 Regulations”) in relation to certain of the matters to be recorded on the register kept by the General Teaching Council for Wales (“the Council”). The register is to indicate the date on which a person was first employed as a supply teacher in accordance with the provisions of the Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (Wales) Regulations 2003, as amended by the Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2004 (“the Induction Regulations”). This will enable the Council to monitor whether a person is permitted to continue in employment as a supply teacher under the Induction Regulations. The Induction Regulations impose limits on the periods during which a person who has not served an induction period may be employed as a supply teacher.

These Regulations also amend Schedules 1 and 2 to the 2000 Regulations so that the Council is no longer required to record on the register the date on which a teacher’s initial teacher training course started and was completed.

(1)

1998 c. 30. Sections 2 to 7 apply in relation to the General Teaching Council for Wales by virtue of section 9. Section 4 is amended prospectively by paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 12 to the Education Act 2002 (c. 32), and was amended by paragraph 77 of Schedule 21 to that Act. For the meaning of “prescribed” and “regulations” see section 43(1).

(2)

See the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) (Order) 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), and section 211 of the Education Act 2002.

(3)

S.I. 2000/1979 (W.140) as amended by S.I. 2001/2496 (W.200) and S.I.2004/1741 (W.180).

(4)

S.I. 2003/543 (W. 77). Paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 was substituted by S.I. 2004/872 (W.87).

(5)

Regulation 18(2) was inserted by S.I. 2004/872 (W. 87).

(6)

1998 c. 38.