Teaching Council (Amendment) Act 2015

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Amendment of section 2 of Principal Act

2. Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (1) —

(i) by the insertion of the following definitions:

“‘Act of 1998’ means the Education Act 1998 ;

‘Act of 2012’ means the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012 ;

‘Act of 2015’ means the Teaching Council (Amendment) Act 2015;

‘centre for education’ has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 1998;

‘child’ has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2012;

‘complainant’ means a person (including the Council) who makes a complaint under subsection (1) or subsection (1D), as the case may be, of section 42;

‘delivery of home tuition’ shall be construed in accordance with subsection (1A) (inserted by section 2 (b) of the Act of 2015);

‘Garda Central Vetting Unit’ has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2012;

‘GCVU disclosure’ means vetting information in respect of a person received from the Garda Central Vetting Unit before the commencement of the Act of 2012;

‘harm’ has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2012;

‘poor professional performance’ means, in relation to a registered teacher, a failure by the registered teacher to meet the standards of competence (whether in knowledge, skill or the application of knowledge and skill or both) that can be reasonably expected of a registered teacher;

‘relevant organisation’ has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2012;

‘specified information’ has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2012;

‘vetting disclosure’ has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2012;

‘vetting procedures’ has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2012;

‘vulnerable person’ has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2012.”,

(ii) by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “panel”:

“ ‘panel’ means a panel of the Disciplinary Committee established under section 43(3);”,

(iii) by the deletion of the definition of “professional misconduct”,

and

(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (1):

“(1A) In this Act, a reference to the delivery of home tuition is a reference to any work or activity consisting of the provision of home tuition by a person pursuant to a scheme administered and funded by the Department of Education and Skills and known as the Home Tuition Scheme.”.