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265 Required qualifications to be a qualified educator—unexpected absence of qualified educator
For the purposes of regulation 264(3) and (4), an educator is qualified if he or she—
(a) holds or is actively working towards an approved diploma level education and care qualification; or
(b) holds an approved early childhood teaching qualification; or
(c) is taken to be an early childhood teacher under regulation 135 or 242; or
(d) holds a primary teaching qualification; or
(e) in the case of regulation 264(3)(c) or (d)—is a suitably qualified person.
Reg 265: Subst 2014 (260), reg 37. Am 2019 (631), reg 21.