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Education (Scotland) Act 1981

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3Subject to the provisions of this Act, the committee or any of its sub-committees shall have power to do anything (whether or not involving the expenditure or borrowing of money) which is calculated to facilitate, or is conducive or incidental to, the discharge of any of its functions.

4Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph 3 above, the powers conferred by that paragraph shall, in relation to the committee, include the power to—

(a)employ servants or agents ;

(b)acquire or dispose of any property or rights ;

(c)sell, at such price as the committee may consider appropriate, to any person or body anything published, under the provisions of sections 91 to 97D of this Act, by the committee ;

Provided that nothing in this sub-paragraph shall authorise any charge to be made in respect of any copy the transmission of which is required under the said provisions ; and

(d)make provision for the resolution of any dispute between teaching staff and their employers as to the meaning or application of—

(i)any settlement which the committee may formulate ; or

(ii)any award which under section 97B(8) or (9) of this Act has the same effect as such a settlement,

and shall, in relation to any sub-committee of the committee, include the powers mentioned in sub-paragraph (d) of this paragraph.

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