Teachers Registration and Standards Act 2004

A person must not, for payment or other consideration, personally provide, or offer to provide, pre-school education, or primary or secondary education, unless the person is a registered teacher.

A person must not perform the duties of a principal at a school, or of a director of a prescribed service, unless the person is a registered teacher.

A person (the employer) must not—

employ a person (the employee)—

to personally provide, or offer to provide, pre-school education, or primary or secondary education; or

as a principal of a school; or

as a director of a prescribed service; or

require or allow a person employed by the employer (the employee) to—

personally provide, or offer to provide, pre-school education, or primary or secondary education; or

perform the duties of a principal of a school; or

perform the duties of a director of a prescribed service, unless the employee is a registered teacher.

However, subsections (1) to (3)

do not apply in relation to—

a person acting in accordance with a special authority to teach granted by the Teachers Registration Board under Part

a person, or person of a class, prescribed by the regulations.

For the purposes of subsection (3)(a), a reference to employing a person will, in the case where an employee's registration as a teacher is suspended or cancelled, or the person is disqualified from being registered as a teacher, after their initial employment, be taken not to include a reference to the continued employment of the person.

A person must not claim to be a registered teacher unless the person is, in fact, a registered teacher.