The Education (Teachers) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/368
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Teachers) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and this regulation and regulation 2 shall come into force on 1st April 1997 and regulation 3 shall come into force on 1st September 1997.

Section 2 Amendment of the Education (Teachers) Regulations 1993

Regulation 8 of the Education (Teachers) Regulations 1993 shall be amended—

(a) by the insertion at the beginning of paragraph (1) of the words “Subject to paragraph (3),”; and

(b) by the addition of new paragraphs as follows:

(3) A person who is in receipt of a retirement pension by virtue of regulation E4(6) of the Teachers’ Superannuation (Consolidation) Regulations 1988 (ill health retirement) shall not be regarded as having the health and physical capacity to be appointed to relevant employment or to be engaged to provide his services as a teacher at a school or further education institution otherwise than under a contract of employment, save that a person whose entitlement to such pension took effect before 1st April 1997 may be so appointed or engaged to serve part-time.

(4) Nothing in paragraph (3) prevents the appointment or engagement of a person who has ceased to be incapacitated and whose retirement pension has for that reason ceased to be payable.

Section 3 Amendment of the Education (Teachers) Regulations 1993

For the definition of “accredited institution” in paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 3 to the Education (Teachers) Regulations 1993 there shall be substituted the following—

an “accredited institution” means an institution accredited by the Teacher Training Agency or, in Wales, by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, as a provider of courses satisfying such provisions as to curricula and other criteria as may from time to time be specified by the Secretary of State.