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An Act to make provision with respect to the remuneration and other conditions of employment of school teachers; and for connected purposes.
F2 1 Establishment of review body to consider statutory conditions of employment of school teachers.
2 Orders relating to statutory conditions of employment.
make provision by order giving effect to the recommendations of the review body, with or without modification, or making such other provision with respect to the matters referred to the review body as he thinks fit.
F4 (2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b) refer to provisions set out in a document published [F5 in accordance with the order] and direct that those provisions shall have effect or, as the case may be, be amended in accordance with the order.
F9 (h). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b) it appears to the Secretary of State to be expedient to make the provision in question.
(b) so far as it relates to other statutory conditions of employment, the provisions set out or referred to in the order shall have effect as terms of the contracts of employment of school teachers to whom the order applies.
(7) Subject to [F11 sections 3 and 3A] below, so far as concerns his statutory conditions of employment, the contract of employment of a school teacher shall contain no terms other than those which have effect by virtue of a pay and conditions order.
(8) Without prejudice to section 14 of the M1 Interpretation Act 1978 (power to make an order implies a power, exercisable in the same manner etc, to revoke or amend a previous order made under that power) a pay and conditions order made by virtue of subsection (1) above may revoke or amend, or may be revoked or amended by, a pay and conditions order made by virtue of subsection (5) above.
(b) in any other case, the statutory instrument by which the order is made shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
I2 S. 2 wholly in force: s. 2(1)-(6)(8) in force at 6.3.1992 by S.I. 1992/532, art. 3 (with art. 4); S. 2(9) in force at 30.3.1992 by S.I. 1992/988, art. 2; s. 2(7) in force at 4.12.1992 by S.I. 1992/3070, art. 2.
[3 F13 Special provisions as to schools in education action zones.
(b) pursuant to that application are for the time being exempted from subsections (6) and (7) of section 2 above by virtue of an order under subsection (4) below.
(2) Before making an application under subsection (1) above, the governing body of the participating school concerned shall consult the school teachers employed at the school with respect to the proposed application.
(3) A notice of application under subsection (1) above shall specify a date, at least three months after the date of the notice, with effect from which the governing body of the participating school concerned intend to make their own provision as to the statutory conditions of employment of the school teachers employed at the school.
(b) specifying, as the date with effect from which, by virtue of the order, subsections (6) and (7) of section 2 above are not to apply, the date specified in the notice of application or such other date as may be agreed between the governing body and the Secretary of State.
and (so far as necessary) the local education authority shall give effect to any such determination of the governing body.
[3A F14 Special provisions for teachers on transfer of employment.
(2) A pay and conditions order shall not apply to the statutory conditions of employment of such a teacher unless he gives notice in writing to the new employer that the order is to so apply.
There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament any expenses of the Secretary of State under this Act and any increase attributable to this Act in the sums so payable under any other Act.
and [F20 where any other expression used in this Act is defined for the purposes of the M2 Education Act 1996 or the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, it shall have the same meaning in this Act as in that Act.] .
(2) A person employed as a teacher in an establishment maintained by a local authority in the exercise of a social services function is not a school teacher for the purposes of this Act.
(b) any matter is, or as the case may be is not, to be regarded as falling within the professional duties or working time of school teachers.
(b) contain such incidental, supplemental or transitional provisions as the Secretary of State thinks fit.
(5) In [F21 sections 496 and 497 of the Education Act 1996] (powers of Secretary of State in relation to functions of certain bodies under that Act) , any reference to that Act includes a reference to this Act.
6 Citation, repeals, extent and commencement.
(1) This Act may be cited as the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Act 1991.
F22 (2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3) This Act has effect in place of the M3 Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Act 1987 and, accordingly, the enactments in Schedule 2 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
(4) This Act, except paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to this Act (House of Commons disqualification) , extends to England and Wales only; and that paragraph extends to the whole of the United Kingdom.
(5) This Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint, and, without prejudice to section 5(4) above, different days may be so appointed for different provisions and for different purposes.
I5 S. 6 wholly in force: S. 6(1)(2)(4)(5) in force at 22.8.1991 see s. 6(5) and S.I. 1991/1874, art. 2; s. 6(3) in force at 6.3.1992 by S.I. 1992/532, art. 3.

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 art. 3