School Education (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2002

2 Provisions relating to the abolition of the post of assistant headteacher

(1) The requirements, under paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the School Boards (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 47) (education authority intending to fill a post of headteacher or deputy headteacher must advertise the post and set up an appointment committee for the purposes set out in sub-paragraph (b) of that paragraph), do not apply in the circumstances set out in subsection (2) below.

(2) Those circumstances are where a person who is an assistant headteacher is to be made a deputy headteacher immediately upon that person’s post as assistant headteacher ceasing to exist.

(3) In section 11 (appointments) of the 1988 Act, the words “and assistant” are repealed.

(4) In section 15 (delegation of functions to school boards) of that Act, in sub-paragraph (b) of subsection (2), the words “or assistant” are repealed.

(5) In Schedule 2 to that Act (appointment of headteachers, deputies and assistants)—

(a) in paragraph 1, for the words “headteacher, deputy headteacher or assistant” there shall be substituted “headteacher or deputy”;

(b) in paragraph 10, the words “or assistant headteacher” are repealed; and

(c) in paragraph 19, the words “or assistant” are repealed.