{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1993-repealed/section-290",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1993-repealed/section-290.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/35",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1993 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1993-repealed",
  "path": "section/290",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "290",
  "heading": "Independent schools: employment of teachers etc.",
  "text": "(1) At the end of section 71 of the Education Act 1944 (independent schools: complaints) there is added—\n“(4) If at any time the Secretary of State is satisfied that a person whose employment is prohibited or restricted by virtue of regulations under section 218(6) of the Education Reform Act 1988—\n(a) is employed in a registered or provisionally registered school in contravention of those regulations, or\n(b) is the proprietor of such a school,\nhe may order that the school be struck off the register or, as the case may be, that the Registrar is not to register the school.\n(5) In this section, and in sections 72 and 73 of this Act, “employee” means a person employed in work which brings him regularly into contact with persons who have not attained the age of nineteen years.”\n(2) In sections 71(1)(d) and (2), 72(2)(e), (3) and (4) and 73(3) of that Act, after “teacher” in each place where it occurs there is inserted “ or other employee ”.\n(3) In section 218 of the Education Reform Act 1988 (school etc. regulations)—\n(a) at the end of subsection (6)(b) “or” is omitted,\n(b) after subsection (6)(c) there is added\n“or\n(d) by the proprietors of independent schools or at such schools as teachers or in any such work” ,and\n(c) in subsection (12) after “section” there is inserted “ other than in subsection (6)(d) above ”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1944 c. 31."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1988 c. 40."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/35/section/290",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:55.204351+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}