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Regulation 3 Limit on lower primary class sizes

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

No lower primary class at a school shall contain more than 30 pupils while an ordinary teaching session is conducted by a single qualified teacher.

(2)

Where an ordinary teaching session in the case of any such class is conducted by more than one qualified teacher, paragraph (1) shall be taken to prohibit the class from containing more than 30 pupils for every one of those teachers.

(3)

Where a lower primary class at a school contains any excepted pupil (as defined by regulation 4), paragraph (1) or (2) shall apply as if he were not included in the class.

(4)

Any limit imposed by this regulation shall apply–

(a)

in relation to a Primary 1 class, from 1st August 1999;

(b)

in relation to a Primary 2 class, from 1st August 2000; and

(c)

in relation to a Primary 3 class, from 1st August 2001.