Part I The teaching profession
Chapter I The General Teaching Councils
Functions of the General Teaching Council for England
I13 Registration of teachers.
1
The Council shall establish and maintain F3a register for the purposes of this Chapter (“the register”).
2
The register shall contain the name of every person who is eligible for F5full or provisional registration and applies to be registered in the register in accordance with regulations made under section 4.
3
M1A person is eligible for F7registrationF7full registration if he is a qualified teacher F1within the meaning of section 218(2) of the Education Reform Act 1988 and he is not for the time being—
F2a
subject to a direction under section 142(1)(a) of the Education Act 2002 (prohibition from teaching, &c.),
b
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d
(subject to such exceptions as may be prescribed by, or determined by the Secretary of State under, regulations) ineligible for registration as a teacher, or disqualified from being a teacher in any school, by virtue of any prescribed provision of the law of Scotland or of Northern Ireland.
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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.