Part 8

Teachers

1999 Pay Document

Application of pay-scale
147
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.