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Section 1
1The Chief Inspector may appoint such staff, in addition to inspectors who are members of his staff by virtue of section 1(3), as he thinks fit.
2(1)The Chief Inspector may arrange for such persons as he thinks fit to assist him in the discharge of his functions in relation to a particular case or class of case.
(2)Any person assisting the Chief Inspector under any such arrangements is to be known as an additional inspector.
(3)The Chief Inspector must ensure that additional inspectors have the necessary qualifications, experience and skills to assist him in the effective discharge of his functions.
(4)In pursuance of the duty imposed by sub-paragraph (3), the Chief Inspector must publish in such manner as he thinks fit, and may from time to time revise, a statement of—
(a)the qualifications or experience (or both) that are to be required of additional inspectors who are not members of his staff, and
(b)the standards that such additional inspectors are to be required to meet in the exercise of their functions and the skills that they are to be required to demonstrate in the exercise of those functions.
(5)Any arrangements which provide for assistance by persons who are not members of the Chief Inspector's staff must be made on terms that require the person with whom the arrangements are made to secure compliance with any requirements that are from time to time published under sub-paragraph (4).
(6)If the Chief Inspector has entered into arrangements with persons who are not themselves additional inspectors (“inspection service providers”) for the provision by the inspection service providers of the services of inspectors, the Chief Inspector must publish, at intervals of not more than 12 months, a list of the names of those persons who, as at a specified date, are currently notified to him by any inspection service provider as persons with whom the inspection service provider proposes to make arrangements for the carrying out of inspections on behalf of the Chief Inspector.
(7)An additional inspector acting within the authority conferred on him by the Chief Inspector has all the powers of one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools in England.
(8)The Chief Inspector may not authorise an additional inspector to conduct an inspection of a school under section 5 unless—
(a)the inspection is to be supervised by one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools in England, or
(b)the additional inspector has previously conducted an inspection under that section under the supervision of one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools in England (“the supervising inspector”) to the satisfaction of the supervising inspector.
3(1)There are to be paid to the Chief Inspector such remuneration, and such travelling and other allowances, as the Secretary of State may determine.
(2)In the case of any such Chief Inspector as may be determined by the Secretary of State, there is to be paid—
(a)such pension, allowance or gratuity to or in respect of him, or
(b)such contributions or payments towards provision for such a pension, allowance or gratuity,
as may be so determined.
(3)If, when any person ceases to hold office as Chief Inspector, the Secretary of State determines that there are special circumstances which make it right that he should receive compensation, there may be paid to him such sum by way of compensation as may be determined by the Secretary of State.
4The Chief Inspector is to continue to have an official seal for the authentication of documents required for the purposes of his functions.
5(1)Subject to sub-paragraph (3) and paragraph 2(8), anything authorised or required by or under this Part of this Act or any other enactment to be done by the Chief Inspector may be done by—
(a)any of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools in England,
(b)any other member of his staff, or
(c)any additional inspector,
who is authorised generally or specially in that behalf by the Chief Inspector.
(2)Without prejudice to the generality of sub-paragraph (1), the references to the Chief Inspector in sections 4 and 10 (powers of entry) include references to any person authorised to act on his behalf under sub-paragraph (1).
(3)The making of any report of an inspection of a school under section 5 which states the opinion that special measures are required to be taken in relation to the school must be personally authorised by—
(a)the Chief Inspector, or
(b)one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools in England who is authorised by the Chief Inspector for the purposes of this sub-paragraph.
6The Documentary Evidence Act 1868 (c. 37) has effect in relation to the Chief Inspector as if—
(a)he were included in the first column of the Schedule to that Act,
(b)he and any person authorised to act on his behalf were mentioned in the second column of that Schedule, and
(c)the regulations referred to in that Act included any document issued by him or any such person.
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