Part 8Teachers

1999 Pay Document

147 Application of pay-scale

1

This section—

a

applies to the construction of paragraph 18 of the document referred to in article 3 of the Education (School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions) (No. 2) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2160) (classroom teachers: criteria for position on pay spine) as it had effect from 1st September 1999 to 31st March 2000, and

b

shall be treated as having come into force on 1st September 1999 (for all purposes including the calculation of pensions).

2

Where a person is awarded one or more points, he shall be paid the salary shown for the spine point which equates to the number of points awarded.

3

Where a person is not awarded a point, he shall be paid the salary shown for the lowest spine point.

4

In paragraph 18.1.1 (good honours degree)—

a

paragraph (a) shall be ignored,

b

paragraph (b) shall be treated as applying irrespective of the date of a person’s appointment to his first post following qualification as a teacher, and

c

in paragraph (c) the words “before 1st September has been employed as a qualified teacher and who” shall be ignored.