General Teaching Council for Wales (Constitution) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 c.812

General Teaching Council for Wales (Constitution) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 No. 812 (W. 69)

Summary:

The General Teaching Council for Wales (Constitution) Regulations 1999, as amended, provide for the constitution of the General Teaching Council for Wales ("the Council"). These Regulations amend the 1999 Regulations.
Regulations 2(2) and 5 of the 1999 Regulations are amended so that a person is not eligible for election to the Council under regulation 4 or appointment under regulation 11(1)(a), unless, as well as fulfilling the existing criteria relating to the length of the period of employment as a teacher, he or she was, during that period, registered with the Council and employed in a school maintained by an LEA (or a special school not so maintained). The Education (Specified Work and Registration) (Wales) Regulations 2004 requires a qualified teacher carrying out specified work (i.e. teaching) in a maintained school in Wales to be registered with the Council, so the effect of these amendments to the 1999 Regulations is that it is only those teachers who were required to be registered who are eligible for election or appointment under regulation 4 or 11(1)(a). By virtue of regulation 7(3) of the 1999 Regulations this new requirement also applies to a person appointed by the National Assembly for Wales after nomination by an organisation set out in the Schedule to the 1999 Regulations.
Regulation 3 of the 1999 Regulations is amended so as to make it clear that all Council members (whether elected or appointed) are to act as individuals and not as representatives of any organisations to which they belong or which nominated them for appointment.
Regulation 4 of the 1999 Regulations (read with the new definitions inserted in regulation 2(1) of those Regulations) is amended so as to rename the category of elected members of the Council comprising teachers of junior pupils as teachers of pupils of primary school age and the category comprising teachers of senior pupils as teachers of pupils of secondary school age. This simply reflects the terms which are in practice used by the Council and the teaching profession. Regulation 4 is also amended so that the category of elected members which comprised head or deputy head teachers now comprises head, deputy head or assistant head teachers, one of whom must be from the secondary sector.
Regulation 6(2) and (3) of the 1999 Regulations are amended so that an electoral scheme under regulation 6 of those Regulations no longer requires approval of the National Assembly (formerly the Secretary of State).
Regulation 7 of the 1999 Regulations is amended so as to make it clear that, where an organisation listed in the Schedule to those Regulations changes its name but effectively remains the same organisation, the reference in the Schedule is to be read as a reference to the organisation under its new name.
The Schedule to the 1999 Regulations is amended so as to reflect changes made in the names of the organisations listed since it was last updated in 2003.

Made Under:

Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (C. 30) - section 1 (5) and (7) of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 1

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