Teachers Registration Act 2000 (Tas)

Teachers Registration Act 2000

An Act to provide for the registration of teachers in Tasmania [Royal Assent 20 December 2000]

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

PART 1 - Preliminary

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Teachers Registration Act 2000 .

2. Commencement The provisions of this Act commence on a day or days to be proclaimed.

3. Interpretation In this Act – amend means insert matter, omit matter or omit matter and substitute other matter; approved means approved by the Board; Board means the Teachers Registration Board of Tasmania referred to in section 5 ; certificate of registration means a certificate issued under section 15 ; committee of inquiry means a committee of inquiry appointed under section 21 ; complaint means a complaint made under section 19 ; corresponding registration authority means a person, body, department or other authority in another jurisdiction within Australia or in New Zealand that is responsible under the law of that jurisdiction for the registration, licensing or other approval of teachers; fit to be a teacher means fit to be a teacher as determined under section 17K ; full registration means full registration granted under section 13 or 14 or renewed under section 17A ; fully registered, in relation to a person, means that the person – (a) has been granted full registration under section 13 or 14 or had his or her full registration renewed under section 17A ; and (b) holds a current certificate of registration in relation to that grant or renewal of full registration; good character means good character as determined under section 17J ; hearing means a hearing held under section 22C as part of an inquiry; holder of a limited authority means a person who holds a current notice of limited authority; inquiry means an inquiry held under Division 2 of Part 4 ; limited authority means a limited authority granted under section 17D or extended under section 17H ; materials includes any publication, document, computer software, video, sound recording, film or photograph; notice of limited authority means a notice referred to in section 17E ; one full-time equivalent year of teaching means – (a) one year of full-time teaching; or (b) part-time teaching equivalent to one year of full-time teaching; or (c) a combination of full-time and part-time teaching equivalent to one year of full-time teaching; practising teacher means a registered teacher who is employed as a member of the teaching staff of a school; prescribed offence means – (a) an offence, committed in Tasmania, in respect of which a sentence of imprisonment may be imposed (whether or not such sentence is imposed); or (b) an offence, committed elsewhere, in respect of which, if the offence had been committed in Tasmania, a sentence of imprisonment may have been imposed (whether or not such sentence is imposed); provisionally registered, in relation to a person, means that the person – (a) has been granted provisional registration under section 13 , whether on the determination of an application under section 12 or pursuant to section 17A(5) ; and (b) holds a current certificate of registration in relation to that grant of provisional registration; provisional registration means provisional registration granted under section 13 , whether on the determination of an application under section 12 or pursuant to section 17A(5) ; register means – (a) a register of registered teachers, or a register of holders of limited authorities, kept under section 25 ; or (b) in relation to a person, register the person as fully registered, provisionally registered or specialist vocational education and training registered; register of holders of limited authorities means a register of holders of limited authorities kept under section 25 ; register of teachers means a register of registered teachers kept under section 25 ; registered school has the same meaning as in the Education Act 2016 ; registered teacher means a person – (a) who is fully registered, provisionally registered or specialist vocational education and training registered; and (b) whose name appears on the register of teachers; Registrar means the Registrar appointed under section 7C ; registration means full registration, provisional registration or specialist vocational education and training registration; school has the same meaning as in the Education Act 2016 ; specialist vocational education and training registered, in relation to a person, means a person who – (a) has been granted specialist vocational education and training registration under section 13 or has had his or her specialist vocational education and training registration renewed under section 17A ; and (b) holds a current certificate of registration in relation to that grant or renewal of specialist vocational education and training registration; specialist vocational education and training registration means specialist vocational education and training registration granted under section 13 or renewed under section 17A ; State school has the same meaning as in the Education Act 2016 ; student means a child or person enrolled at a school; Tasmanian Polytechnic means the Tasmanian Polytechnic continued under section 5 of the Education and Training (Tasmanian Polytechnic) Act 2008 ; TasTAFE means TasTAFE as continued by the TasTAFE (Skills and Training Business) Act 2021 .