Western Australian Consolidated Acts

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN COLLEGE OF TEACHING ACT 2004 - SECT 3

3 .         Terms used

        (1)         In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears —

        application means an application for —

            (a)         membership of the College;

            (b)         the renewal of membership of the College; or

            (c)         the variation of information specified on a limited authority to teach under section 36(2)(b);

        associate member of the College means a person referred to in section 38;

        Board means the Board established under section 7;

        College means the Western Australian College of Teaching established under section 5;

        committee means a committee established by the College under section 13;

        criminal record check means information provided by the Australian Federal Police, the Police Force of a State or Territory, or another body or agency prescribed by the regulations, regarding the criminal convictions of a person for offences under the law of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory;

        Director means the Director of the College appointed under section 19;

        disciplinary action means an action referred to in section 64;

        inquiry means an inquiry under Part 7;

        limited authority to teach means an authority referred to in section 36;

        member of the Board means a member of the Board appointed or elected under section 9;

        member of the College means a person who —

            (a)         is registered as a teacher;

            (b)         is provisionally registered as a teacher;

            (c)         holds a limited authority to teach; or

            (d)         is an associate member of the College;

        provisional registration means provisional registration as a teacher under section 32;

        register means the register referred to in section 47;

        registered teacher means a person who is registered or provisionally registered;

        registration means registration as a teacher under section 34;

        rules means rules made under section 85 or regulations made under section 86(1)(b);

        teaching means undertaking duties in a school that include —

            (a)         the delivery of an educational programme designed to implement the outline of curriculum and assessment in schools established under the School Curriculum and Standards Authority Act 1997 and the assessment of student participation in such an educational programme; or

            (b)         the administration of any such educational programme,

        but does not include duties of the kind undertaken by —

            (c)         a teacher’s aide, a teacher’s assistant or a student teacher; or

            (d)         an unpaid volunteer, unless the volunteer is undertaking duties in a school of a kind, or to an extent, prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph;

        unprofessional conduct means conduct referred to in section 63.

        (2)         A word or expression used in this Act has the same meaning as it has in the School Education Act 1999 unless —

            (a)         this Act gives it another meaning; or

            (b)         the contrary intention appears in some other way.

        [Section 3 amended by No. 18 of 2007 s. 4; No. 37 of 2011 s. 59.]