Training and Workforce Development (Transitional Provisions) Act 2013

In this section – Board means the Teachers Registration Board continued by section 5 of the Teachers Registration Act 2000; commencement day means 1 July 2013; full registration has the same meaning as in the Teachers Registration Act 2000; fully registered has the same meaning as in the Teachers Registration Act 2000; provisionally registered has the same meaning as in the Teachers Registration Act 2000; provisional registration has the same meaning as in the Teachers Registration Act 2000; specialist vocational education and training registration has the same meaning as in the Teachers Registration Act 2000.

On the written application of a person or on its own motion, the Board may grant, under section 13 of the Teachers Registration Act 2000, specialist vocational education and training registration to the person if satisfied that the person – is, and immediately before the commencement day was, fully registered or provisionally registered; and satisfies the criteria for specialist vocational education and training registration as set out in that section.

On granting specialist vocational education and training registration to a person in pursuance of subsection (2), the Board, if it considers it appropriate, may cancel the full registration or provisional registration of the person.

If the person granted specialist vocational education and training registration in pursuance of subsection (2) has paid the annual registration fee payable under the Teachers Registration Act 2000 for the year in which the specialist vocational education and training registration is so granted, or the annual registration fees for that year and a later year, in relation to his or her full registration or provisional registration – no further annual registration fee is payable only because the person has been so granted specialist vocational education and training registration; and no refund is owing if the person's full registration or provisional registration is cancelled.