SCHEDULE 26 Inspection of nursery education
Registration of nursery education inspectors
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(1)
Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools in England shall establish and maintain a register of nursery education inspectors for England and F1Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales or Prif Arolygydd Ei Mawrhydi dros Addysg a Hyfforddiant yng Nghymrushall establish and maintain a register of nursery education inspectors for Wales.
(2)
The Chief Inspector—
(a)
shall give guidance to registered nursery education inspectors and such other persons as he considers appropriate in connection with inspections under paragraph 6 and the making of reports of such inspections, and
(b)
shall keep under review the system of inspections under paragraph 6 and, in particular, the standard of such inspections and of the reports made of them.
(3)
The Chief Inspector shall not register a person under this paragraph unless, having regard to any conditions that he proposes to impose under sub-paragraph F2(5B) , it appears to him that the person—
(a)
is a fit and proper person for discharging the functions of a registered nursery education inspector, and
(b)
will be capable of conducting inspections under paragraph 6 competently and effectively and no person shall be so registered if he falls within a category of persons prescribed for the purposes of this sub-paragraph.
F3(4)
Subject to that, the Chief Inspector shall register such persons as he considers appropriate.
(5)
The factors which the Chief Inspector may take into account for the purposes of sub-paragraph (4) include the extent to which there is a need for registered inspectors in any part of England and Wales.
(5A)
The Chief Inspector may require payment of a fee before registering a person under sub-paragraph (4).
(5B)
Registration under sub-paragraph (4) may be subject to such conditions as the Chief Inspector considers it appropriate to impose.
(6)
Conditions imposed under sub-paragraph F4(5B) may be conditions applying generally in relation to all cases, or particular classes of case, or such conditions together with specific conditions applying in the particular case.
(7)
Where a person is registered subject to conditions imposed under sub-paragraph F5(5B) , he shall be taken to be authorised to act as a registered nursery education inspector only so far as those conditions permit.
(8)
The period for which any registration is to have effect shall be determined by the Chief Inspector and shall be entered in the register kept by him.
(9)
F6Nothing in sub-paragraph (8) is to be taken as preventing a registered nursery education inspector from applying for a fresh registration to take effect immediately on the expiry of his current registration.