Part 8Teachers
School teachers’ qualifications
135 Head teachers
(1)
Regulations may provide that a person may serve as the head teacher of a school only if he is a qualified teacher.
(2)
Regulations may provide that a person may serve as the head teacher of a school only if he has a specified qualification (in addition to any qualification required by virtue of subsection (1)).
(3)
A provision of regulations under subsection (2) shall not apply to a person who has been appointed as the head teacher of a school before the commencement of the provision.
(4)
Regulations under subsection (2) shall not prevent a person from carrying out the functions of the head teacher of a school—
(a)
pending the appointment of a head teacher, or
(b)
in the absence of the head teacher.
(5)
In this section “school” means—
(a)
a school maintained by a F1local authority, or
(b)
a special school not so maintained.