Short leet procedure
5.—(1) Subject to regulation 5(3), an education authority must invite (but shall not be entitled to require) any Parent Council established for the school to which a relevant appointment is to be made, to participate in relation to the preparation of a short leet of candidates (the “short leet procedure”).
(2) Subject to regulation 5(3) where a Parent Council decides that it wishes to participate in the short leet procedure it shall do so either by means of nominating such person as it wishes from among its members or by nominating a person such as is referred to in section 14(3) of the Act.
(3) Regulation 5(1) and (2) shall not apply where the education authority decides, following consultation in terms of regulation 4, that the post of headteacher be filled by redeploying to that post an existing headteacher currently employed elsewhere, or that the post of deputy headteacher be filled by redeploying to that post an existing deputy headteacher currently employed elsewhere.