Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998

3 Registration of teachers

(1) The Council shall establish and maintain a register of teachers (“the register”).

(2) The register shall contain the name of every person who is eligible for registration and applies to be registered in the register in accordance with regulations made under section 4.

(3) A person is eligible for registration if he is a qualified teacher within the meaning of section 218(2) of the [1988 c. 40.] Education Reform Act 1988 and he is not for the time being—

(a) prohibited from being employed, or otherwise engaged to provide his services, as a teacher as the result of a direction given by the Secretary of State by virtue of section 218(6) of that Act (prohibition or restriction on employment of teachers), or

(b) subject to a disciplinary order made under Schedule 2 to this Act by virtue of which he is not eligible for registration, or

(c) disqualified from being employed as a teacher in any school by virtue of an order made—

(i) by an Independent Schools Tribunal under section 470 of the [1996 c. 56.] Education Act 1996, or

(ii) by the Secretary of State under section 471 of that Act, or

(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.

(4) Except in such circumstances as may be prescribed, a person is not eligible for registration if, having served an induction period in accordance with regulations under section 19, he has failed to complete it satisfactorily for the purposes of those regulations.