Education Act 1957 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9 · Employment of Unregistered Teachers
41. Method of application and limitations to be applied
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If the supervisor of a school or person who applies for registration of a school is of opinion that there is not available a suitable registered teacher for employment in the school whereof he is supervisor or in the proposed school, he may make application to the Director‑General in the Form 6 set out in the Schedule for authority to employ a person to teach who is not registered as a teacher and for authority for that person to teach as an unregistered teacher.
supervisor
“supervisor” means the manager registered as the supervisor under section 28;
Subject to section 42 and after such inquiry as may be necessary, the Director‑General may issue to the applicant an authority in writing in the Form 7 set out in the Schedule and shall issue to the unregistered teacher a copy thereof and that copy shall be deemed to be the unregistered teacher’s authority to teach.
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;
Such authority shall state the school in which and the period for which the unregistered teacher may teach and may at the discretion of the Director‑General impose limitations as to the subjects and classes which he may teach.
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;