Statutory Instruments
2018 No. 166
Professional Qualifications
The School Teachers (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) (Amendment) Regulations 2018
Made
7th February 2018
Laid before Parliament
9th February 2018
Coming into force
1st April 2018
The Secretary of State is designated( 1 ) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972( 2 ) in relation to the recognition of higher-education diplomas, formal qualifications, or experience in the occupation, required for the pursuit of professions or occupations.
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the School Teachers (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 and come into force on 1st April 2018.
Amendment to the European Union (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) Regulations 2015
2. —(1)The European Union (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) Regulations 2015( 3 ) are amended as follows.
(2) In Schedule 1 (Regulated Professions), in the table in Part 1 (Professions Regulated by Law or Public Authority), in relation to the entry listed in the first column as “School Teacher in a publicly regulated school in England”, in the second column headed “Competent authority”, for “The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) on behalf of the Secretary of State” substitute “Secretary of State”.
Nick Gibb
Minister of State
Department for Education
7th February 2018
Article 2 of and Schedule 1 to S.I. 2002/248 , to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations. Under section 57(1) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) , despite the transfer to Scottish Ministers of functions in relation to implementing obligations under European Union law by virtue of section 53 of that Act, any function of a Secretary of State continues to be exercisable by the Secretary of State as regards Scotland for the purposes specified in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.
1972 c.68 ; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and by section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7) .
S.I. 2015/2059 , to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.