Teaching Council (Scotland) Act 1971

1 Regulations for the deduction of fees for renewal of registration from salaries of certain persons, and the remittance of those fees to the General Teaching Council for Scotland.

(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, the Secretary of State may make regulations requiring education authorities and managers of educational establishments to deduct from the salary of any person to whom this section applies any fee prescribed by the registration rules in respect of the retention of that person's name on the register, required to be kept by section 6(1) of the [1965 c. 19.] Teaching Council (Scotland) Act 1965, and to remit that fee to the General Teaching Council for Scotland (hereinafter referred to as " the Council").

(2) The persons to whom this section applies are persons in the employment of the said authorities or managers on such a date or during such a period as may be specified in the said regulations, who are registered in the said register, and who as a consequence of that employment are required by virtue of any enactment (whether passed or made before or after the commencement of this Act) to be so registered.

(3) Regulations made for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section may make provision with respect to the arrangements to be adopted by education authorities and managers of educational establishments for the deduction and remittance of fees required to be made thereunder, and for notification by the said authorities and managers to the Council of such particulars of persons in their employment to whom this section applies as the regulations may prescribe.

(4) The said regulations may vary or revoke any provision of the registration rules relating to the payment of fees, so far as any such provision requires, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, to be varied or revoked having regard to any provision of the regulations.

(5) The said regulations may include such consequential, ancillary and incidental provisions as appear to the Secretary of State to be expedient for the purpose of the regulations.