School Boards (Scotland) Act 1988

15 Delegation of functions to Boards

(1) Every education authority shall have power, by making an instrument to be known as a “delegation order”, to delegate, subject to subsections (2) and (3) below, any of the authority’s functions in relation to a school to the School Board.

(2) There shall not be delegated under this section—

(a) the function of giving employment to, or of dismissing or of removing from a school, any of the staff of the school;

(b) the function of selecting a person to be appointed as headteacher, or as a deputy or assistant headteacher;

(c) the regulation of the curriculum;

(d) the assessment of pupils (without prejudice to the competency of delegating decisions as to the manner in which results of assessment are reported);

(e) the function of discontinuing, changing the site of, or amalgamating with another school a school (or part of a school); or

(f) the function of setting up or discontinuing any stage of education in a school, or special classes in a school;

(g) the function of determining admissions policy for a school.

(3) A delegation order may be made for a specified period or without limit of time, and may include such conditions attached to the delegation of functions as (subject to Schedule 3 to this Act) the authority consider appropriate.

(4) Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect in relation to the making and amendment of delegation orders.

(5) An education authority which revokes or amends an order under this section shall have power to adjust accordingly the monies made available to the School Board under section 17 of this Act.