The Education (School Teachers' Pay and Conditions) Order 2003

Section 1Citation and commencement
This Order may be cited as the Education (School Teachers' Pay and Conditions) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st April 2003.
Section 2Application
This Order applies to school teachers (as defined in section 5(1) and (2) of the Act ) in England and Wales.
Section 3School Teachers' Pay and Conditions
The School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document 2002 shall be amended with effect from 1st April 2003 as follows:
(a) in paragraph 1.2 the following definitions shall be inserted in the appropriate places in alphabetical order—
“the Inner London Area” means the area comprising the areas of the London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Brent, Camden, City of London, Ealing, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth and Westminster;
“the Outer London Area” means Greater London, excluding the Inner London Area;
“the Fringe Area” means:
in Berkshire: the Districts of Bracknell Forest, Slough and Windsor and Maidenhead;
in Buckinghamshire: the Districts of South Buckinghamshire and Chiltern;
in Essex: the Districts of Basildon, Brentwood, Epping Forest, Harlow and Thurrock;
in Hertfordshire: the Districts of Broxbourne, Dacorum, East Hertfordshire, Hertsmere, St Albans, Three Rivers, Watford and Welwyn Hatfield;
in Kent: the Districts of Dartford and Sevenoaks;
in Surrey: the whole County; and
in West Sussex: the District of Crawley;
“the London Area” comprises the Inner London Area, the Outer London Area and the Fringe Area;
(b) in paragraph 1.2 for the definition of “Induction Regulations” there shall be substituted the following definition:“ “ Induction Regulations ” means the Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (Consolidation)(England) Regulations 2001 or the Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers)(Wales) Regulations 2003 ;”
(c) the following paragraph shall be added after paragraph 1.6—
(1.7) Where a table containing a pay scale, pay spine or salary range contains two columns of annual salaries, the column headed “England and Wales” applies to teachers serving in England and Wales except those serving in the Inner London Area and the column headed “Inner London” applies to teachers serving in the Inner London Area.
(d) in paragraph 4.1 for the words “From 1st April 2002” there shall be substituted the words “From 1st April 2003”;
(e) in paragraph 4.2 for the words “From 1st April 2002” there shall be substituted the words “From 1st April 2003”;
(f) in paragraph 4.3 for the words “From 1st April 2002” there shall be substituted the words “From 1st April 2003”;
(g) the following table shall be substituted for the table in paragraph 4.5—
Annual Salary
Egland and Wales
Annual Salary
Inner London
(h) paragraph 4.6 shall be deleted;
(i) the following table shall be substituted for the table in paragraph 6.3—
(j) in paragraph 15.2 for the words “From 1st September 2002” there shall be substituted the words “From 1st April 2003”;
(k) the following table shall be substituted for the table in paragraph 15.3.2—
Annual Salary
England and Wales
Annual Salary
Inner London
(l) in paragraph 17.1 for the words “From 1st April 2002” there shall be substituted the words “From 1st April 2003”;
(m) the following table shall be substituted for the table in paragraph 17.2—
Annual Salary
England and Wales
Annual Salary
Inner London
(n) in paragraph 23.1 for the words “From 1st April 2002” there shall be substituted the words “From 1st April 2003”;
(o) the following table shall be substituted for the table in paragraph 23.1—
(p) in paragraph 24.1 the words “with effect from 1 April 2002” in the first sentence shall be deleted and in the second sentence for the words “From 1 April 2002” there shall be substituted the words “From 1st April 2003”;
(q) the following table shall be substituted for the table in paragraph 24.1—
(r) for paragraph 25.1 there shall be substituted the following–
(25.1) From 1st April 2003, the annual value of a first special educational needs allowance referred to in paragraph 25 is £1,674, and the annual value of a second special educational needs allowance referred to in paragraph 25 is £3,312.
(s) in paragraph 28.1 for the words “From 1st April 2002” there shall be substituted the words “From 1st April 2003”;
(t) the following table shall be substituted for the table in paragraph 28.1—
Annual Salary
England and Wales
Annual Salary
Inner London
(u) in paragraph 36.1 for the words “From 1 April 2002” there shall be substituted the words “From 1st April 2003”;
(v) the following table shall be substituted for the table in paragraph 36.1—
Annual Salary
England and Wales
Annual Salary
Inner London
(w) for paragraph 41.1 there shall be substituted the following–
(41.1) From 1st April 2003 a teacher serving in the Outer London Area shall receive an allowance of £2,247 per annum and a teacher serving in the Fringe Area shall receive an allowance of £870 per annum.
(x) for paragraph 41.2 there shall be substituted the following–
(41.2) A teacher normally serving in the London Area but temporarily employed elsewhere shall continue to be paid in accordance with the appropriate Inner London pay scale or (as the case may be) to receive the London Area allowance at the rate appropriate to his normal area of employment.
(y) for paragraph 41.3 there shall be substituted the following—
(41.3) A teacher who on 1st April 2003 was being paid in accordance with the appropriate Inner London pay scale or receiving a London Area allowance shall continue to be paid in accordance with the appropriate Inner London pay scale or to receive that allowance at the appropriate rate, notwithstanding that he would not otherwise be entitled to it under the provisions of this Document, for so long as he remains in the post that he held on that date.
(z) for paragraph 41.4 there shall be substituted the following—
(41.4.1) A teacher who moves out of the Inner London Area may continue to be paid in accordance with the appropriate Inner London pay scale at the rate being paid before he moved for so long as he continues to be employed as a teacher in a post in which his salary is paid by the same authority.
(41.4.2) A teacher who moves out of the Outer London Area to anywhere but to the Inner London Area may continue to be paid an Outer London Area allowance at the rate being paid before he moved for so long as he continues to be employed as a teacher in a post in which his salary is paid by the same authority.
(41.4.3) A teacher who moves out of the Fringe Area to anywhere but to the Inner London Area or the Outer London Area may continue to be paid a Fringe Area allowance at the rate being paid before he moved for so long as he continues to be employed as a teacher in a post in which his salary is paid by the same authority.
(aa) for paragraph 41.5 (d) there shall be substituted the following—
in the case of a classroom teacher the relevant body determine the point on the pay scale in paragraph 15.3 and allowances under paragraph 23, 24 or 25 which immediately after the change occurs and when any additional points awarded after 31st August 2002 under paragraphs 16.1 or 16.2 or an increase in salary caused by the teacher having moved to the Inner London pay scale or having become entitled to be paid as a post-threshold teacher are ignored, takes that teacher’s remuneration above that to which he was entitled on 31st August 2002.
(bb) paragraph 41.6 shall be deleted;
(cc) in paragraph 49(c) for “67.4” there shall be substituted “67.3”;
(dd) in paragraph 53.1 for the words “1st April 2002 to 31st March 2003” there shall be substituted the words “1st April 2003 to 31st March 2004”.
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