{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-staffing-england-regulations-2003/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-staffing-england-regulations-2003/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1963",
  "legislation_title": "School Staffing (England) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-staffing-england-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Appointment of head teacher and deputy head teacher",
  "text": "(1) The governing body must notify the authority of—\n(a) any vacancy for the head teacher, and\n(b) where it identifies a post of deputy head teacher as one to be filled, that post.\n(2) The governing body must advertise any such vacancy or post in such manner as it considers appropriate.\n(3) The governing body must appoint a selection panel consisting of at least three of its members, to—\n(a) select for interview such applicants for the post as they think fit and, where the post is that of head teacher, notify the authority in writing of the names of the applicants so selected,\n(b) interview such of those applicants as attend for the purpose, and\n(c) where they consider it appropriate to do so, recommend to the governing body for appointment one of the applicants interviewed by them.\n(4) If within a period of seven days beginning with the date when it receives notification under paragraph (3)(a), the authority makes written representations to the selection panel that any of the applicants is not a suitable person for the appointment, the selection panel must—\n(a) consider those representations, and\n(b) where they decide to recommend for appointment the person about whom the representations have been made, notify the authority in writing of their reasons.\n(5) Subject to regulation 20(2), the governing body may appoint the person recommended by the selection panel to the vacancy or the post to be filled.\n(6) If—\n(a) the selection panel do not recommend a person to the governing body, or\n(b) the governing body declines to appoint the person selected by the selection panel,\nthe selection panel may select another person for appointment in accordance with this regulation (but this does not prevent the selection of an existing applicant).\n(7) Subject to regulation 20(2), if the governing body has good reason not to advertise and conduct a selection process to fill the vacancy or post in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4), the governing body may appoint such other person it has identified to the vacancy or post to be filled.\n(8) Paragraphs (2) to (7) are subject to regulation 27.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1963/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:12:37.426176+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."
}