{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002/section-135",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002/section-135.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/32",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002",
  "path": "section/135",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "135",
  "heading": "Head teachers",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may provide that a person may serve as the head teacher of a school only if he is a qualified teacher.\n(2) Regulations may provide that a person may serve as the head teacher of a school only if he has a specified qualification (in addition to any qualification required by virtue of subsection (1)).\n(3) A provision of regulations under subsection (2) shall not apply to a person who has been appointed as the head teacher of a school before the commencement of the provision.\n(4) Regulations under subsection (2) shall not prevent a person from carrying out the functions of the head teacher of a school—\n(a) pending the appointment of a head teacher, or\n(b) in the absence of the head teacher.\n(5) In this section “school” means—\n(a) a school maintained by a local authority, or\n(b) a special school not so maintained.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1158), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 11(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 135 partly in force; s. 135 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 216; s. 135 in force for W. at 19.12.2002 by S.I. 2002/3185, art. 4, Sch. Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 135 in force at 1.10.2003 except in relation to W. by S.I. 2003/1667, art. 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/32/section/135",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:01.287129+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."
}