The Education (School Teachers' Pay and Conditions) Order 2006

• Citation: S.I. 2006/1274
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as The Education (School Teachers' Pay and Conditions) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 1 st June 2006.

Section 2 Amendments to the Document

(1) The School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document 2005 is amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2) After paragraph 55.4 insert the following—

Salary sacrifice arrangements

(55A) For the purposes of this paragraph, the term “salary sacrifice arrangement” means any arrangement under which the teacher gives up the right to receive part of his gross salary in return for the employer’s agreement to provide him with a benefit-in-kind under any of the following schemes—

(a) a child care voucher or other child care benefit scheme;

(b) a cycle or cyclist’s safety equipment scheme; or

(c) a mobile telephone scheme; and

that benefit in-kind is exempt from income tax .

(55A.2) Where the employer operates a salary sacrifice arrangement, the teacher may participate in any such arrangement and his gross salary may be reduced accordingly for the duration of his participation in it.

(55A.3) Participation in any salary sacrifice arrangement shall have no effect upon the determination of any safeguarded sum to which the teacher may be entitled under any provision of the Document.

Section 3 Amendments to the Document

After Annex 6 of the Document (Changes taking effect from 1 st January 2006) insert the following Annex—

In paragraph 30.1—

(a) insert the following heading above the pay spine—

“Previous Pay Spine - Effective until 31 August 2006

”;

and

(b) insert the following table after the pay spine—

New Pay Spine - Effective from 1 September 2006

(2) After paragraph 30.8 insert the following sub-paragraphs—

(30.9) Subject to paragraphs 30.9A and 30.9B, the relevant body shall transfer its advanced skills teachers from the previous pay spine to the new pay spine with effect from 1 st September 2006, in accordance with the following table—

New Spine Point

(All Regions)

(30.9A) Where the relevant body determines that an advanced skills teacher shall move up the pay spine in accordance with paragraph 30.7, it shall make and give effect to that determination using the previous pay spine and before the teacher is assimilated onto the new pay spine in accordance with paragraph 30.9.

(30.9B) Where it is not possible to make and give effect to the determination referred to in paragraph 30.9A in accordance with paragraph 30.7 before the advanced skills teacher is assimilated onto the new pay spine in accordance with paragraph 30.9, the relevant body shall make the determination using the previous pay spine, as though assimilation had not taken place, and re-assimilate him onto the new pay spine thereafter in accordance with paragraph 30.9.

(2) In paragraph 30.1 substitute the pay spines with the following pay spine—