The Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989

Review of performance of teachers N.I.

151 .F1 —(1) The Department may by regulations make provision requiring employing authorities to secure that the performance of teachers to whom the regulations apply—

(a) in discharging their duties; and

(b) in engaging in other activities connected with the establishments at which they are employed,

is regularly reviewed in accordance with such requirements as may be prescribed.

(2) The regulations may, in particular, make provision—

(a) requiring the Boards of Governors of controlled schools and Catholic maintained schools and the governing bodies of institutions of further education—

(i) to secure that any arrangements made in accordance with the regulations are complied with in relation to their establishments;

(ii) to provide such assistance to the employing authority as that authority may reasonably require in connection with its obligations under the regulations;

(b) with respect to the disclosure to teachers of the results of reviews and the provision of opportunities for them to make representations with respect to those results; and

(c) requiring employing authorities to have regard to the results of reviews in the exercise of such of their functions as may be prescribed.

(3) The regulations may be expressed to apply to any of the following categories of teacher, that is to say—

(a) teachers employed in grant‐aided schools;

(b) teachers employed in institutions of further education;

Sub-para. (c) rep. by 1993 NI 12

(d) peripatetic teachers.

(4) Before making any regulations under paragraph (1), the Department shall consult—

[F2 (a) the General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland; and]

(b) any other person with whom consultation appears to it to be desirable.

(5) In this Article “employing authority” means—

(a) in relation to teachers employed in controlled schoolsF3 . . . , [F4 the Authority] F5 ...;

(b) in relation to teachersF6 . . . employed by the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools, that Council;

(c) in relation to teachers employed in a voluntary school (other than a Catholic maintained school), the managers of that school;

(d) in relation to teachers employed in a grant‐maintained integrated school, the Board of Governors of the school;

(e) in relation to peripatetic teachers, [F4 the Authority] F7 ...;

[F8 (f) in relation to teachers employed in an institution of further education, the governing body of that institution.]

F1 certain functions transf. by SR 1999/481

F2 1998 NI 13

F3 1997 NI 15

F4 Words in Order substituted (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 3 para. 1(1)(a) (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3), Sch. 3 para. 1(2)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)

F5 Words in art. 151(5)(a) repealed (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)

F6 1993 NI 12

F7 Words in art. 151(5)(e) repealed (1.4.2015) by Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 12), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 para. 4(3)); S.R. 2015/35, art. 2(b)

F8 1997 NI 15