Part 8

Teachers

School teachers' qualifications

Head teachers
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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 local education authority, or
b
a special school not so maintained.