South Australian Consolidated Regulations South Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) Every applicant
for appointment to the teaching service must have undertaken a prescribed
course of teacher education or have obtained such other qualifications as the
Minister, on the recommendation of the Director-General, approves.
(2) A person who has
not completed the requirements prescribed by subregulation (1) may be
employed as a temporary teacher on a yearly basis if the Director-General is
satisfied that he or she has the educational attainment and teaching ability
to justify the proposed appointment.
(3) The Minister may
require any applicant to supply—
(a) an
approved certified birth extract from an official register of births or such
other evidence as to his or her age as is satisfactory to the Minister; and
(b)
documentary evidence of his or her experience and qualifications or other
evidence satisfactory to the Minister as to his or her suitability to perform
the duties he or she would be required to undertake if appointed; and
(c) a
certificate from an approved legally qualified medical practitioner that the
applicant is of sound health and free from any physical or mental defect
likely to impair his or her efficiency in the performance of the duties he or
she would be required to undertake if appointed.
(4) Every applicant
shall furnish true and complete information in answer to all questions asked
by the Minister, an officer of the Department or any approved medical
practitioner, and where an applicant furnishes information which is false or
misleading in any material particular he or she shall be guilty of an offence
and liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
(5) Before appointment
as a teacher an applicant shall undertake in writing to serve if required in
any part of the State at any period of his or her service.