Education (Prohibition from Teaching or Working with Children) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Automatic Prohibition

8.—(1) This regulation applies in the case a person who—

(a) (i) on or after the date specified in regulation 8(5) of the Education (Prohibition from Teaching or Working with Children) Regulations 2003(1), has been convicted of an offence set out in Schedule 2 to those Regulations against or involving a person under the age of sixteen or who has been convicted of an attempt to commit any such offence, by a court in the United Kingdom;

(ii) was a teacher or a person to whom Article 88A of the 1986 Order applies before or at the time he committed or was convicted of the offence; and

(iii) was aged eighteen or over at the time the offence was committed;

(b) on or after 1^st April 2005—

(i) is made subject to a disqualification order; and

(ii) was a teacher or a person to whom Article 88A of the 1986 Order applies before or at the time he committed or was convicted of the offence to which the disqualification order relates; or

(c) is included (other than provisionally) in the list kept by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety under Article 3 of the 2003 Order.

(2) Where paragraph (1) applies, the Department shall, on receipt of notification that a person has been convicted of an offence mentioned in paragraph (1)(a)(i), has been made subject to a disqualification order or has been included on the list kept by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, prohibit him from teaching or working with children and notify him and his employer accordingly.

(1)

S.I.2003/1184 as amended by S.I.2004/1493