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Part 1E+WAmendments of Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998

4(1)Section 4 (which relates to regulations about the registration of teachers with the General Teaching Council for England, and is applied by section 9 in relation to the General Teaching Council for Wales) is amended as follows.E+W

(2)In subsection (2), after paragraph (b) there is inserted—

“(ba)the service on applicants for registration of notice of the Council’s decision to grant or refuse the application and, in the case of a refusal, of the grounds on which the decision was taken and (where applicable) of the applicant’s right to appeal against the decision under section 4A;”.

(3)After subsection (4) there is inserted—

“(4A)The Council, in exercising any power to fix fees authorised by virtue of subsection (4), shall have regard to the expenditure of the Council in exercising—

(a)their functions under this Act relating to registration, and

(b)all other functions conferred on them under this Act or any other enactment.”

(4)After subsection (5) there is inserted—

“(6)In this section “registration” means full registration or provisional registration.”