The Education (Health Standards) (England) Regulations 2003
These Regulations prescribe activities for the purposes of section 141 of the Education Act 2002 – “relevant activities” – which may only be carried out by a person who has the health and physical capacity to do so. They provide that a person in receipt of a certain ill-health retirement pension will not be regarded as having the health or physical capacity to carry out some, but not all, of these relevant activities – namely those described as “teaching”. This is subject to an exception, however, that does not automatically prevent those who became entitled to receive such pension before 1st April 1997 from teaching part-time.