Education (Scotland) Act 1980

94 Action on recommendations of arbiters

(1) Any recommendations of the arbiters, on a reference under section 93 of this Act with respect to any matters considered by a committee, shall be transmitted to the Secretary of State ; and, except where those recommendations do not propose any change in the relevant remuneration of teachers as it then exists and subject to subsection (2) below, subsections (3) to (6) of section 92 of this Act shall have effect in relation to the recommendations of the arbiters as if they were recommendations of that committee.

(2) If, in any case where any recommendations of arbiters have been transmitted to the Secretary of State under subsection (1) above, each House of Parliament resolves that national economic circumstances require that effect should not be given to the recommendations, the provisions of section 92 of this Act referred to in subsection (1) above shall not have effect as mentioned in that subsection.

(3) Where such a resolution has been passed by each House of Parliament, the Secretary of State, after consultation with the committee in question, shall determine what changes (if any) in the relevant remuneration of teachers as it then exists are appropriate in the circumstances, and, unless he determines that no such changes are appropriate, shall (subject to subsection (4) below) proceed in accordance with subsections (3) and (4) of section 92 of this Act, or (where applicable) in accordance with subsections (5) and (6) of that section, as if the changes determined by him had been recommended by that committee under subsection (2) of that section.

(4) Subsections (4) and (6) of section 92 of this Act, as applied by subsection (3) above, shall each have effect with the substitution, for the words from " shall make " to " giving effect to ", of the words "may, if he thinks fit, modify the draft in consequence of ".