South Australian Numbered Acts

TEACHERS REGISTRATION AND STANDARDS ACT 2004 (NO 57 OF 2004) - SECT 20

20—Requirement to be registered

        (1)         A person must not—

            (a)         undertake employment as a teacher, principal or director at a school or recognised kindergarten; or

            (b)         for a fee or other consideration, personally provide primary or secondary education, or offer to do so; or

            (c)         claim or pretend to be a registered teacher,

unless the person is a registered teacher.

Maximum penalty: $5 000.

        (2)         A person must not employ another person as a teacher, principal or director at a school or recognised kindergarten unless the other person is a registered teacher.

Maximum penalty: $10 000.

        (3)         A person must not employ another person in the course of a business to provide primary or secondary education unless the other person is a registered teacher.

Maximum penalty: $10 000.

        (4)         Subsections (1), (2) and (3) do not apply in relation to a person acting in accordance with a special authority to teach granted by the Teachers Registration Board under Part 6 or in relation to a person of a class prescribed by regulation.