Education Act 2002

Health and fitness

141 Health and fitness

(1) Regulations may provide that an activity to which this section applies may be carried out only by a person who satisfies specified conditions as to health or physical capacity.

(2) This section applies to an activity of a prescribed kind performed in the course of the provision of education at—

(a) a school, or

(b) a further education institution.

(3) This section also applies to an activity of a prescribed kind performed in the course of the provision of education by a person—

(a) otherwise than in a school or a further education institution, and

(b) under a contract of employment or for services where the other party is a local education authority or a person exercising a function relating to the provision of education on behalf of a local education authority.

(4) This section also applies to an activity of a prescribed kind (other than the provision of education) where—

(a) the activity is carried out by a person under a contract of employment or for services,

(b) the other party to the contract is a local education authority or the governing body of a school or a further education institution, and

(c) the activity regularly brings the person into contact with children.

(5) In this section—

• “child” means a person who has not attained the age of 18 years,

• “education” includes vocational, social, physical and recreational training,

• “further education institution” has the meaning given by section 140, and

• “school” means—

  (a)

  a school maintained by a local education authority, or

  (b)

  a special school not so maintained.