New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INSTITUTE OF TEACHERS ACT 2004 - SECT 30

30 Provisional accreditation of new scheme teachers

(1) A teacher accreditation authority may, on application by a person who is a new scheme teacher:

(a) provisionally accredit the person, or

(b) refuse to provisionally accredit the person.

(2) A teacher accreditation authority may provisionally accredit any such person if the authority is satisfied that:

(a) the person meets the requirements specified in the professional teaching standards for provisional accreditation, or

(b) the person has completed an approved course and will receive a qualification in relation to that course.

(3) In the case of a person referred to in subsection (2) (b), it is a condition of a person’s provisional accreditation that the person provides, as soon as practicable after receiving his or her qualification in relation to the approved course, the teacher accreditation authority with evidence of the person’s qualification.

(4) The provisional accreditation of a person who is a new scheme teacher ceases (unless sooner revoked by a teacher accreditation authority):

(a) at the end of the relevant period, or

(b) if, before the end of the relevant period, the person is accredited at professional competence level by a teacher accreditation authority-when the person is accredited at that level.

(5) In this section:
"relevant period", in relation to a person who is provisionally accredited under this section, means:

(a) if the person is employed on a full-time basis-the period of 3 years (or such longer period as may be determined by the Minister in any particular case) following the date on which the person was provisionally accredited, or

(b) if the person is employed on a casual or part-time basis:

(i) the period determined in accordance with the regulations to be commensurate with the 3-year period for persons employed on a full-time basis, or

(ii) such longer period as may be determined by the Minister in any particular case,

following the date on which the person was provisionally accredited.