The annual Registration fee is £44 and must be paid when you make your initial application for registration and renewed every year. The GTCNI registration period runs 1 April to 31 March.
For most teachers, annual renewal of registration will be a direct deduction from your salary; including Voluntary Grammar Schools. If your registration has lapsed, you must log into the Teacher Portal and pay your fee directly. Please note that you can log into the teacher portal and confirm your registration status at any time.
Deduction from Salary (DAS)
Most registered teachers renew their annual registration through a deduction in their salary in April / May. If your renewal fee is paid by DAS you may also automatically receive a tax refund. This deduction from salary applies to teachers who are in employment in the month of April, including some supply teachers.
Please check your April/May pay statement for confirmation your fee has been deducted.
If we have not received your payment by June we will issue a fee payment reminder.
Read more about how the fee process works
GTCNI Fee Payment Reminder
If your renewal fee is not collected through the DAS process, GTCNI will issue a fee payment reminder in June. This might be because:
You are currently on Maternity Leave – the annual registration fee may not be deducted from your maternity pay and you will be notified by letter to pay the fee direct to GTCNI; or
You are currently not in employment, on a career break or off work due to a long–term illness and you will be notified by letter to pay the fee direct to GTCNI.
If we do not receive payment after we have issued the Fee Payment Reminder in June we will issue a reminder two weeks later and then a final de–registration email.
If your registration has lapsed and/or you have received a Fee Payment Reminder from GTCNI you can easily re–activate or renew your registration by logging in to the Teacher Portal and paying your fee online.
De–registration
If registration fees are unpaid, your registration record within the GTCNI register of teachers will be closed and you will no longer be eligible to teach in grant aided schools in Northern Ireland.
If you have been de–registered, but wish to re–register, please log in to your GTCNI’s Teacher’s Portal to apply to re–register and pay your fee. If your registration has been lapsed for more than three years GTCNI will need to conduct suitability checks. Please note this process may take several weeks.
Retirement or cancelling your registration
If you no longer intend to teach in any capacity in Northern Ireland and wish to terminate your registration, you should log in to the Teacher’s Portal and apply to voluntarily withdraw from the register. Please note that in order to maintain registration with the Northern Ireland Supply Teacher Register your registration with GTCNI must remain active. It is not possible to refund all or part of a registration fee
Claiming a tax refund on your registration fee
GTCNI is an approved professional body and you may be able to claim tax relief on your professional fees. This may be done automatically if your fees are deducted from your salary (DAS). Further information on how to claim tax relief is available on the HMRC website.