Teaching Council (Scotland) Act 1965

Miscellaneous and Supplementary

13 Service of notices

Any notice or other document authorised or required to be served under this Act may, without prejudice to any other method of service, be served by registered or recorded delivery post; and for the purpose of the application to this section of section 26 of the [1889 c. 63.] Interpretation Act 1889 (which relates to service by post) the proper address of a person to whose registration such a notice or other document relates shall, if he is a registered person, be his address on the register.

14 Orders

(1) Any power conferred by this Act to make an order shall include power to vary or revoke the order by a subsequent order.

(2) Any order made by the Secretary of State under this Act shall be made by statutory instrument; and a statutory instrument containing any such order (except an order under section 18(3) of this Act) shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

15 Financial provisions

(1) The Secretary of State may from time to time make to the Council such grants as he thinks fit in respect of expenses incurred or to be incurred by the Council in discharging their functions under this Act, and may make to the Council such loans as he thinks fit in respect of the initial expenses incurred or to be incurred by the Council in establishing the register.

(2) Where the Secretary of State incurs expenses under paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to this Act in connection with the first election of the Council he shall be deemed to have made to the Council a loan of an amount equal to the amount of the expenses incurred.

(3) Any loan made, or deemed to be made, to the Council by the Secretary of State under the foregoing provisions of this section shall be subject to such terms and conditions, and shall be repaid to him at such times, as he may, with the approval of the Treasury, direct.

(4) Any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State under this Act shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

(5) Any sums received by the Secretary of State under this Act shall be paid into the Exchequer.

16 Amendment of Act of 1962

(1) So much of section 81 of the Act of 1962 as confers power on the Secretary of State to award certificates of competency to teach in schools or other educational establishments shall cease to have effect, and accordingly in that section paragraph (a) of subsection (1), and in subsection (3) the words " certificates or " and the words " certificates and ", wherever they occur, are hereby repealed.

(2) In the Act of 1962 (except in section 145(11) thereof) any reference to a certificated teacher shall, unless the context otherwise requires, include a reference to a teacher registered under this Act.

17 Interpretation

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively:—

• " Act of 1962 " means the [1962 c. 47.] Education (Scotland) Act 1962 ;

• " approved school " means a school approved under section 83 of the [1937 c. 37.] Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937;

• " notice " means a notice in writing ;

• " register " means the register established by the Council under section 6 of this Act; and " registered " and " registration " shall be construed accordingly ;

• " teach " means teach in an educational establishment (as defined in section 145 of the Act of 1962) or in an approved school, and " teaching " and " teacher " shall be construed accordingly.

(2) Any expression used in this Act and in the Act of 1962 has in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the same meaning as it has in that Act.

(3) Any reference in this Act to an enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended or extended by or under any other enactment, including this Act.

18 Short title, extent and commencement

(1) This Act may be cited as the Teaching Council (Scotland) Act 1965.

(2) This Act extends to Scotland only.

(3) This Act shall come into operation on such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint; and different days may be appointed for different provisions.