SCHEDULE 1

Regulation 4

PART 1Revocations

Regulations Revoked

References

Extent of Revocation

The Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards)(England) Regulations 1999

S.I.1999/2166

The whole Regulations except –

regulation 3 to the extent that it relates to regulations 5, 6 and 7;

regulations 5, 6 and 7;

paragraphs 6 and 7 of Schedule 1; and

Schedule 2.

The Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards)(England) (Amendment)Regulations 2000

S.I.2000/2704

The whole Regulations

The General Teaching Council for England (Additional Functions) Order 2001

S.I.2001/1214

The whole Order

The Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards)(England) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2001

S.I.2001/3737

The whole Regulations

The Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards)(England) (Amendment)Regulations 2002

S.I.2002/1434

The whole Regulations

The Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards)(England) (Amendment)Regulations 2003

S.I.2003/107

The whole Regulations

PART 2Savings and General Transitional Provisions

Existing qualifications for teaching hearing impaired pupils1

Any person who immediately before 1st August 2003 possessed –

a

a qualification approved for the purpose of regulation 11 of the 1999 Regulations;

b

a qualification approved for the purpose of regulation 14 of the 1993 Regulations;

c

a qualification approved for the purpose of regulation 15 of the 1989 Regulations;

d

a qualification mentioned in regulation 15(1) of the 1982 regulations;

e

a comparable qualification approved for the purposes of that regulation;

f

a qualification mentioned in regulation 20(3) of the 1959 Regulations; or

g

an equivalent qualification approved for the purposes of that regulation,

shall be treated as possessing a qualification approved for the purpose of regulation 6.

Existing qualifications for teaching visually impaired pupils2

Any person who immediately before 1st August 2003 possessed –

a

a qualification approved for the purpose of regulation 12 of the 1999 Regulations;

b

a qualification approved for the purpose of regulation 15 of the 1993 Regulations;

c

a qualification approved for the purpose of regulation 16 of the 1989 Regulations;

d

a qualification mentioned in regulation 16(1) of the 1982 Regulations;

e

a qualification approved for the purpose of that regulation as comparable to a qualification so mentioned; or

f

a qualification for teaching blind pupils which, immediately before 8th April 1982, satisfied the requirements of the Secretary of State under regulation 15(2) of the Handicapped Pupils and Special Schools Regulations 19598,

shall be treated as possessing a qualification approved for the purpose of regulation 7.

Continued employment of existing teachers of pupils who are hearing or visually impaired or both3

1

A person who is mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) shall be a qualified teacher for the purposes of teaching a class of pupils who are both hearing and visually impaired, notwithstanding that he is not a qualified teacher for the purpose of regulation 8(1).

2

A person who satisfies the requirements of –

a

regulation 13 of the 1999 Regulations, or

b

regulation 18 of the 1982 Regulations,

for employment as the teacher of a class of pupils who were both deaf or partially hearing and blind.

Accreditation of institutions providing initial teacher training4

Any accreditation for the purposes of –

a

regulation 15 of the 1999 Regulations in force immediately before 1st August 2003;

b

paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the 1999 Regulations in force immediately before 15th December 2001; or

c

paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to the 1993 Regulations in force immediately before 1st September 1999,

shall have effect as if given for the purposes of regulation 11.

Teacher trainees on the employment-based teacher training scheme5

The employment-based teacher training scheme established for the purposes of paragraph 19 of Schedule 2 to the 1999 Regulations shall have effect as if established for the purposes of paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations, and persons who are undertaking teacher training by virtue of that scheme shall continue to do so as if for the purposes of paragraph 10 of Schedule 2.

Other teacher training programmes6

A person who is undertaking a training programme pursuant to paragraph 9 of Schedule 3 to the 1999 Regulations shall continue to do so as if for the purposes of paragraph 10 of Schedule 2.