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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-staffing-england-regulations-2009/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-staffing-england-regulations-2009/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Head teacher duties and entitlements",
  "text": "(1) The governing body must ensure that the head teacher at the school—\n(a) complies with the duties imposed upon the head teacher; and\n(b) benefits from any entitlement conferred upon the head teacher,\nby any order under section 122 of the EA 2002 (teachers’ pay and conditions).\n(2) In discharging its duty under paragraph (1)(a), the governing body must have regard to the desirability of the head teacher being able to achieve a satisfactory balance between the time spent discharging the professional duties of a head teacher and the time spent by the head teacher pursuing personal interests outside work.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 2.11.2009, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "By virtue of section 124(3) of EA 2002, an order under section 122 may make provision by reference to a document."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2680/regulation/5",
    "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."
}