Education and Training Reform Act 2006

A school council must dismiss or remove a person who is employed or engaged by the council as a teacher or an early childhood teacher and who has, at any time, been convicted or found guilty of a category A offence in Victoria or an equivalent offence in another jurisdiction or been given a WWC exclusion.

If a person who is employed or engaged by a school council as a teacher within the meaning of Part 2.6 or an early childhood teacher is refused registration or permission to teach under this Act or has had his or her registration or permission to teach cancelled or suspended under this Act, the council may—

suspend the person without pay from duty as a teacher or an early childhood teacher for the period that the person's registration or permission to teach is refused, cancelled or suspended; or

without limiting any of the council's other powers, dismiss or remove the person.

If a person employed or engaged by a school council as a teacher within the meaning of Part 2.6 or an early childhood teacher—

is refused registration or permission to teach under this Act or has his or her registration or permission to teach cancelled or suspended under this Act; and

remains unregistered or without permission to teach for a continuous period of 12 months—

For the purposes of subsection (3)(b), any period during which a person remains unregistered or without permission to teach does not include any period during which the person is on leave approved by the school council.

The school council must notify in writing a person whose employment or engagement has ceased under subsection (3).