The Schools (Scotland) Code Amendment Regulations 2003

Explanatory Note

(This Note is not part of the Regulations)

These regulations revoke parts of the Schools (Scotland) Code 1956, as amended, which is a collection of regulations relating to the organisation and management of schools, much of which is now out of date.

Article 2(a) removes the regulations specifying the required qualification for a headteacher of a nursery school or teacher of a nursery class, relating to the appointment of a headteacher and assistant headteachers in primary departments and the promotion to those posts, and on the numbers of teachers in primary departments.

Article 2(b) removes the requirements relating to the appointment of and the promotion to the posts of headteacher, assistant headteachers, principal and assistant principal teachers in secondary schools.

Article 2(c) removes the regulation providing for reports to the Scottish Ministers on unsatisfactory teachers.

Article 2(e) removes the provisions on maximum class sizes in secondary departments and special schools.

Article 2(f) removes the provision dealing with the non-designation of stages or classes in nursery schools and with the proportionate number of nursery nurses or helpers to be employed in nursery schools or classes.

Article 2(g) removes provisions dealing with the application of regulations to special schools and classes.

Article 2(h) and (i) removes transitional provisions in the Code.

Article 3 preserves definitions in other regulations which have referred to regulation 14 of the Code, notwithstanding its revocation.