Education (2024 School Staffing) Amendment Order 2023
Education (2024 School Staffing) Amendment Order 2023: revoked, on 5 September 2025, pursuant to clause 93 of the Education (2026 School Staffing) Order 2025 (SL 2025/163).
Version as at 5 September 2025
Education (2024 School Staffing) Amendment Order 2023
(SL 2023/292)
Education (2024 School Staffing) Amendment Order 2023: revoked, on 5 September 2025, pursuant to clause 93 of the Education (2026 School Staffing) Order 2025 (SL 2025/163).
Cindy Kiro, Governor-General
Order in Council
At Wellington this 11th day of December 2023
Present:
Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council
Note
The Parliamentary Counsel Office has made editorial and format changes to this version using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.
Note 4 at the end of this version provides a list of the amendments included in it.
This order is administered by the Ministry of Education.
This order is made under section 582 of the Education and Training Act 2020 on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council.
Contents
Order
1 Title
This order is the Education (2024 School Staffing) Amendment Order 2023.
2 Commencement
This order comes into force on 28 January 2024.
3 Principal order
This order amends the Education (2024 School Staffing) Order 2023.
4 Clause 6 amended (Interpretation: general)
In clause 6(1), insert in its appropriate alphabetical order:
community liaison role means a role that has the purpose of supporting the achievement, well-being, and retention of Māori and Pacific students in a high school
5 Clause 29 amended (Total regular staffing allowance)
Replace clause 29(a)(xxiii) with:
(xxiii)
any community liaison release time allowance:
6 Clause 42 amended (Classroom release time allowance)
(1)
In clause 42(2), replace “An area, a year 7 to 13,”
with “A year 7 to 13”
.
(2)
Replace clause 42(2)(c) with:
(c)
multiplying the resulting number by—
(i)
0.04, if the calculation relates to a year 7 to 13 school; and
(ii)
0.06, if the calculation relates to a restricted composite school and to a time before 22 July 2024; and
(iii)
0.08, if the calculation relates to a restricted composite school and to a time on or after 22 July 2024.
(3)
After clause 42(2), insert:
(2A)
An area school’s classroom release time allowance (in FTTEs), if any, is calculated by—
(a)
making the calculations required by clause 42(2)(a) and (b); and
(b)
multiplying the resulting number by 0.04; and
(c)
adding to the resulting number the number that is obtained from the sum of the numbers calculated in subparagraphs (i) to (iii) (after doing the applicable calculations in subparagraphs (iv) and (v) in respect of that sum):
(i)
the number that is obtained by making the calculation required by clause 56, adjusted in accordance with clause 57, that is made to determine the school’s curriculum delivery allowance but, for the part of the calculation that adds the items in clause 56(2), including only the items specified in clause 56(2)(a) and only as they apply to students in years 1 to 6:
(ii)
the product (rounded down to 1 decimal place, if not exactly divisible by 0.1) of—
(A)
the quotient obtained by dividing the sum of the items in clause 8(a) and (b), but only as they apply to the school’s year 1 to 6 students, by its weighted roll; and
(B)
the sum of the items, in relation to the school, in clause 58(2)(a) and (b):
(iii)
the product (rounded down to 1 decimal place, if not exactly divisible by 0.1) of—
(A)
the quotient obtained by dividing the school’s year 1 to 6 roll by its total roll; and
(B)
the number in clause 58(3) that applies to the school; and
(iv)
if the sum of the numbers calculated in subparagraphs (i) to (iii) is not a whole number, rounding it down to the nearest whole number; and
(v)
multiplying the resulting number by—
(A)
0.02, if the calculation relates to a time before 22 July 2024; and
(B)
0.04, if the calculation relates to a time on or after 22 July 2024.
(4)
In clause 42(3), replace “subclause (2)”
with “subclauses (2) and (2A)”
.
7 Clause 52 replaced (Community of learning release time allowance)
Replace clause 52 with:
52 Community of learning release time allowance
(1)
A school’s community of learning release time allowance is 0.4 of an FTTE for each role of Community of Learning Leadership or of Community of Learning Teacher (Across Community) that the school allocates to a teacher (or to 2 or more teachers who share the role).
(2)
A school’s community of learning release time allowance is 0.08 of an FTTE for each role of Community of Learning Teacher (Within School) that the school allocates to a teacher (or to 2 or more teachers who share the role).
8 New clause 52A inserted (Community liaison release time allowance)
After clause 52, insert:
52A Community liaison release time allowance
(1)
A high school’s community liaison release time allowance is 0.04 of an FTTE for each community liaison role that the school allocates to a teacher.
(2)
However, a high school must not receive an allowance under subclause (1) if it would result in an allowance being allocated in respect of more than 335 community liaison roles across all high schools in the 2024 school year.
9 Schedule 2 amended
(1)
In Schedule 2, after the item relating to Napier Boys’ High School, insert:
| Onslow College | 2.0 | 2 |
(2)
In Schedule 2, revoke the item relating to Wellington High School.
Rachel Hayward,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Explanatory note
This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This order, which comes into force on 28 January 2024, amends the Education (2024 School Staffing) Order 2023 (the principal order). The amendments provide for—
phased increases in 2024 to the classroom release time allowance in respect of teachers teaching students in predominantly years 1 to 6 in an area school:
clarification that a community of learning role shared between 2 or more teachers generates the same community of learning release time allowance as a role allocated to a single teacher:
a new community liaison release time allowance for high schools relating to a maximum of 335 community liaison roles for the 2024 school year to support the achievement, well-being, and retention of Māori and Pacific students:
an update to Schedule 2 of the principal order to reflect that Onslow College is taking over activity centre hosting duties from Wellington High School.
Date of notification in Gazette: 14 December 2023.
Notes
1 General
This is a consolidation of the Education (2024 School Staffing) Amendment Order 2023 that incorporates the amendments made to the legislation so that it shows the law as at its stated date.
2 Legal status
A consolidation is taken to correctly state, as at its stated date, the law enacted or made by the legislation consolidated and by the amendments. This presumption applies unless the contrary is shown.
Section 78 of the Legislation Act 2019 provides that this consolidation, published as an electronic version, is an official version. A printed version of legislation that is produced directly from this official electronic version is also an official version.
3 Editorial and format changes
The Parliamentary Counsel Office makes editorial and format changes to consolidations using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. See also PCO editorial conventions for consolidations.
4 Amendments incorporated in this consolidation
Education (2026 School Staffing) Order 2025 (SL 2025/163): clause 93