Education Act 1957 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Registers of Schools, Managers and Teachers
20. Offences
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acts as the manager of a school which is neither registered nor exempted from registration under this Act;
school
“school” means according to the context —(a)an organisation for the provision of education for 10 or more persons; or(b)a place where 10 or more persons are being or are habitually taught whether in one or more classes, or in the case of a correspondence school, the place or places where instruction is prepared or where answers are examined or corrected;
as manager of a registered school employs or permits the employment of any unregistered teacher in the school except as provided under Part 9; or
teacher
“teacher” means a person who teaches pupils in a school or who prepares or issues lessons or corrects written answers in a correspondence school and includes a principal;
teaches in an unregistered school or teaches in a registered school without having obtained either registration as required by section 35 or authority to teach as an unregistered teacher under section 41 or permission to teach under section 44, or continues to teach after the cancellation under section 39 of his registration as a teacher or under section 43 of his authority to teach as an unregistered teacher or under section 44 of his permission to teach as an unregistered teacher,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to the penalties hereinafter provided.