{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-staffing-england-regulations-2009/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-staffing-england-regulations-2009/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2680",
  "legislation_title": "The School Staffing (England) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-staffing-england-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Suspension of staff",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 21, the governing body or the head teacher may suspend any person employed or engaged otherwise than under a contract of employment to work at the school where, in the opinion of the governing body or (as the case may be) the head teacher, such suspension is required.\n(2) The governing body or (as the case may be) the head teacher must immediately inform the authority and the head teacher or (as the case may be) the governing body when a person is suspended under paragraph (1).\n(3) Only the governing body may end a suspension under paragraph (1).\n(4) On ending such a suspension, the governing body must immediately inform the authority and the head teacher.\n(5) In this regulation “suspend” means suspend without loss of emoluments.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regs. 12-22 applied (with modifications) by S.I. 2007/2979, Sch. 1 para. 28 (as substituted (1.4.2013) by The Pupil Referral Units (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) (England) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3158), regs. 1, 3(9))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 19 in force at 2.11.2009, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2680/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:05:02.111582+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."
}