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(1) This Order may be cited as the Teacher Training Agency (Additional Functions) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st December 1997.
(2) The Teacher Training Agency (Additional Functions) Order 1995 shall be revoked.
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The following additional functions are hereby conferred on the Teacher Training Agency—
(a) the licensing or otherwise authorising of persons who are not qualified teachers to be employed as teachers at any school maintained by a local education authority, any special school not so maintained or any grant-maintained school and functions incidental or supplemental thereto exercised under regulations from time to time in force under section 218(1)(a) and (3) of the Education Reform Act 1988;
(b) considering and approving the training programmes of persons who seek to become qualified teachers and who are not employed as teachers at such schools during the period of the training programme and functions incidental or supplemental thereto exercised under regulations from time to time in force under section 218(1)(a) and (2) of the Education Reform Act 1988; and
(c) approving persons for the purpose of carrying out the assessment of candidates who seek to become qualified teachers exercised under regulations from time to time in force under section 218(1)(a) and (2) of the Education Reform Act 1988.
Estelle Morris
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Education and Employment
6th November 1997