Teachers Registration and Standards (Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2021

These regulations may be cited as the

Teachers Registration and Standards (Saving and Transitional Provisions)

Regulations 2021.

These regulations come into operation on the day on which the

Teachers Registration and Standards

(Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 2020 comes into operation.

In these regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

Act means the Teachers Registration and Standards

Act 2004;

Amendment Act means the

Teachers Registration and Standards

(Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 2020;

relevant day means the day on which section 19 of the Amendment Act comes into operation.

An accreditation of an initial teacher education program by the

Teachers Registration Board in force immediately before the commencement of section 19A of the Act (as inserted by section 15 of the

Amendment Act) continues in force, subject to the Act, as if it were an accreditation granted by the Board under section 19A of the

Act.

Section 26 of the Act as in force on and from the relevant day applies, subject to Schedule 1 clause 2 of the Amendment Act, to registration as a teacher granted or renewed on or after the relevant day, and a teacher's registration in force immediately before the relevant day remains in force, subject to the Act, for the balance of the period of registration that applied in respect of that registration under section 26 of the Act as in force immediately before the relevant day.

Section 26A of the Act (as inserted by section 20 of the Amendment Act) does not apply to a registered teacher in relation to the teacher's registration in force immediately before the relevant day for the period the registration remains in force (as determined in accordance with regulation 5).

Section 26A of the Act (as inserted by section 20 of the Amendment Act) does not apply to a registered teacher whose registration as a teacher is registration to which Schedule 1 clause 2 of the

Amendment Act applies for the period that the registration remains in force, as determined in accordance with subclause (2) of that clause.