Where the parents of any pupils in attendance at a controlled school request that they may receive religious F2education in accordance with the provisions of the trust deed relating to the school, or where provision for that purpose is not made by such a deed in accordance with the practice observed in the school before it became a controlled school, the foundation . . . F3 foundation governors shall, unless they are satisfied that owing to special circumstances it would be unreasonable so to do, make arrangements for securing that such religious F2education is given to those pupils at the school during not more than two periods in each week.

Without prejudice to the duty to make such arrangements as aforesaid whatever the number of the teaching staff of the school, where the number of the teaching staff of a controlled school exceeds two the teaching staff shall include persons (hereinafter referred to as “reserved teachers”) selected for their fitness and competence to give such religious F2education as is required to be given under such arrangements and specifically appointed to do so:

The head teacher of a controlled school shall not, while holding that position, be a reserved teacher . . . F4.

Where the local education authority propose to appoint any person to be a reserved teacher in a controlled school, the authority shall consult the foundation . . . F3 foundation governors of the school, and, unless the said . . . F3 governors are satisfied as to that person’s fitness and competence to give such religious F2education as is required in pursuance of such arrangements as aforesaid the authority shall not appoint that person to be a reserved teacher.

If the . . . F3 foundation governors of a controlled school are of opinion that any reserved teacher has failed to give such religious F2education as aforesaid efficiently and suitably, they may require the authority to dismiss him from employment as a reserved teacher in the school.