New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the rules, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These rules, which are made under the Education Act 1989, come into force on 1 November 2007. They set out the procedures that the New Zealand Teachers Council must follow in dealing with reports and complaints about the competence of individual teachers.

The rules revoke and replace the New Zealand Teachers Council (Competence) Rules 2004. The main changes are as follows:

• provisions relating to the appointment by the Teachers Council of a CRT (competence review team) to address competency issues arising out of a report or complaint about competence are not brought forward in these rules:

• the rules include a new requirement: a competence assessor must use his or her best endeavours to reach agreement with the teacher concerned on a recommendation, for inclusion in a report by the competence assessor to the Teachers Council, for the resolution or disposal of the matter:

• the text of section 139AZC of the Education Act 1989 is updated to reflect the substitution of a new subsection (8)(c) on 17 May 2006 by section 35 of the Education Amendment Act 2006.

These rules apply only to a report or complaint about competence made after the close of 31 October 2007.