Education Act 1957 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9 · Employment of Unregistered Teachers
42. Grounds for refusal to authorise unregistered teacher
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The Director-General may refuse to authorise the employment of an unregistered teacher —
on any of the grounds on which he would have been entitled to refuse to register a person as a teacher under section 38(a) to (g); 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;
if there is available for employment in the school concerned a suitable registered teacher.
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;