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Teachers are better off in the maelstrom of teaching if they can contribute in a reasonable and up-to-date way to the work of the General Teaching Council.
If we want to achieve anything, we should aim for that date. The referendum on the Scottish Parliament was held in September 1997 and we managed to hold elections under a completely new system 20 months later.
The deadline says, "If you submit your bill after this date, you're dead." It does not say, "If you submit your bill before this date, you're guaranteed to get it through."
We simply need to correct the problem as soon as possible to ensure that the legislation makes sense and does not refer to a date that is prior to the date of commencement of the legislation.
We wanted to make it clear that a request in those circumstances applies only from the next school entry date. The proposed new section 28A(3F) covers that.The complexity is much to do with the 1980 act, particularly section 32.