Article 42 Eligibility for employment as principal of grant-aided school

The Department may by regulations make provision as to the eligibility of persons to be employed as principals of grant-aided schools.

Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), regulations under that paragraph may include provision requiring persons employed as principals, subject to such exceptions as may be provided for by or under the regulations, to have a qualification approved by the Department for the purposes of this Article.

Regulations under this Article shall apply to every person who is appointed as principal of a grant-aided school on or after the date on which the regulations come into operation, unless he has held such an appointment before that date.

In this Article—

• “principal”—

  1. (a)

     includes, in the case of a grammar school having a preparatory department, the teacher in charge of that department;

  2. (b)

     does not include an acting principal;

• “preparatory department” means that part of a grammar school in which primary education is provided.