{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-prohibition-from-teaching-or-working-with-children-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-prohibition-from-teaching-or-working-with-children-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/288",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Prohibition from Teaching or Working with Children) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-prohibition-from-teaching-or-working-with-children-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Decision to prohibit from employment",
  "text": "(1) Where it appears to the Department that a person—\n(a) has been dismissed from employment as a teacher, or from employment as a person to whom Article 88A of the 1986 Order applies, on the grounds of misconduct rendering him unsuitable to teach or work with children; or\n(b) in relation to such employment, has resigned, retired or been made redundant in circumstances such that his employer would have dismissed him, or would have considered dismissing him, on such grounds if he had not resigned, retired or been made redundant;\nthe Department shall decide whether he should be prohibited from teaching or working with children.\n(2) Where the Department decides under paragraph (1) to prohibit a person from teaching or working with children, it shall include him on the list kept under regulation 8.\n(3) The Department shall notify the person concerned of the outcome of the decision made under paragraph (1).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 15.6.2007, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/288/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:40:26.688353+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."
}