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What if I don’t want to maintain my registration?

If you no longer wish to be a registered teacher / early childhood teacher, please login to your MyVIT account and complete a cessation of registration form.

Simply choose what date you wish to cease your registration (up to 31 December), and you will continue to receive our communications and be able to teach until the chosen cessation date.

Once you cease your registration, you will be unable to undertake the duties of a teacher. If you wish to teach again, you will need to log into your MyVIT account, submit a new application for registration and fulfil all current registration requirements.

Alternatively, you may wish to move to non-practising registration.

I don’t want to teach after the end of the year, do I have to renew in September to finish out my teaching year?

Teachers with an expiry date of 30 September will remain on the Register of teachers for a three-month grace period, and are able to teach until 31 December.

If you hold provisional registration or permission to teach (PTT), you will have a payment expiry date and an approval expiry date which are different. All teachers have a payment expiry date of 30 September.

Provided you show on the Register of teachers as holding current / practising registration, you can continue to use your registration to teach.

If you do not wish to maintain your registration or apply for non-practising registration, you can log into your MyVIT account and complete a cessation of registration form. You will be given the option to choose what date you wish you cease your registration (up to 31 December), and you will continue to receive VIT communications and be able to teach until that date. 

Once you cease your registration, you will be unable to undertake the duties of a teacher. If you wish to teach again, you will need to log into your MyVIT account, submit a new application for registration and fulfil all current registration requirements. Please note: fully registered teachers who cease their registration for more than 5 years and wish to re-register as a teacher, may only be eligible to apply for provisional registration.