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Teaching Service Act 1980
93IDealing with unsatisfactory performance—school principals
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#### 93I Dealing with unsatisfactory performance—school principals
93I Dealing with unsatisfactory performance—school principals
> > (1) If the Secretary is of the opinion that a school principal’s performance is still unsatisfactory following the completion of a performance improvement program for the principal or following the principal’s failure to participate in, or to satisfactorily complete, such a program, the Secretary may—
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> > > (a) dismiss the school principal from the Teaching Service, or
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> > > (b) demote the school principal to a lower position in the Teaching Service.
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> > (2) Before taking any such action with respect to a school principal, the Secretary must—
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> > > (a) notify the principal in writing of the proposed action and the reasons for taking that action, and
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> > > (b) give the principal at least 21 days in which to make written submissions to the Secretary in relation to the proposed action, and
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> > > (c) take into consideration any written submissions received from the principal during that period.
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> > (3) This section does not limit or otherwise affect any power under this or any other Act to dismiss or demote a school principal or to suspend a school principal from duty.
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> **pt 4A, div 3 (ss 93F–93J):** Ins 2006 No 24, Sch 1.1 \[11\].