Local Government Finance Act 1987

Teachers' remuneration

6 (1) In making any determination or doing any other thing after the passing of this Act for the purposes of any Report as regards which paragraph 1(2) and (3) above apply, the Secretary of State shall leave out of account the matters mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) below.

(2) The matters are scales and allowances which relate to the remuneration of school teachers and provide for remuneration greater than the aggregate of—

(a) the remuneration in payment in December 1986, and

(b) 375 per cent. of the remuneration mentioned in paragraph (a) above (375 per cent. being the approximate increase in the GDP deflator for 1987-88, as predicted in the Autumn Statement 1986 presented to Parliament by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in November 1986).

(3) In making any determination or doing any other thing after the passing of this Act for the purposes of—

(a) the report mentioned in paragraph 1(4)(b) above or that mentioned in paragraph 1(4)(c) above, or

(b) any report proposed to be made in substitution (directly or indirectly) for the report mentioned in paragraph 1(8)(b) above or that mentioned in paragraph 1(8)(c) above,

the Secretary of State shall leave out of account the matters mentioned in sub-paragraph (4) below.

(4) The matters are scales and allowances which relate to the remuneration of school teachers and provide for remuneration greater than the remuneration in payment in December 1986.

(5) In this paragraph “school teacher” means—

(a) a teacher in a primary or secondary school maintained by a local education authority, or

(b) a person employed by a local education authority as a teacher in the provision of primary or secondary education, other than a person employed as a teacher in an establishment maintained by a local authority in the exercise of a social services function.