The Education (School Teachers' Pay and Conditions) Order 1987

Made: 6th August 1987

Laid before Parliament: 13th August 1987

Coming into force: 1st October 1987

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 3(3), (4), (5), (7) and (8) of the Teachers' Pay and Conditions Act 1987[^f00001], and after consulting in accordance with the said section 3(7) such associations of local education authorities, such bodies representing the interests of governors of voluntary schools and such organisations representing school teachers as appeared to him to be concerned, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Education (School Teachers' Pay and Conditions) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st October 1987.

Application

2

This Order applies to all school teachers (as defined in the Teachers' Pay and Conditions Act 1987) in England and Wales.

School Teachers' Pay and Conditions

3

It is hereby directed that the provisions relating to remuneration and other conditions of employment set out in the document published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office entitled “School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document 1987”[^f00002] shall have effect respectively—

• (a) for the purpose of determining the remuneration and

• (b) as terms of the contracts of employment

of school teachers in England and Wales.

4

The Education (School Teachers' Pay and Conditions of Employment) Order 1987[^f00003] is hereby revoked.

Signed

Kenneth Baker — Secretary of State for Education and Science — 6th August 1987

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order refers to a document entitled “School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document 1987” published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, which is obtainable from Government bookshops and through booksellers. The Order which comes into force on 1st October 1987 directs that the provisions set out in the Document shall have effect respectively for the purpose of determining the remuneration and as conditions of employment of school teachers in England and Wales.

By virtue of section 3(6)(a) of the Teachers' Pay and Conditions Act 1987, as applied by section 3(8) of that Act, the remuneration of teachers to whom the Order applies is to be determined, and paid to teachers by local education authorities, in accordance with the scales and other provisions set out in the Document.

By virtue of section 3(6)(b) of that Act, also as applied by section 3(8), the provisions relating to conditions of employment shall have effect as terms of the contracts of employment of teachers to whom the Order applies.

The Order revokes the Education (School Teachers' Pay and conditions of Employment) Order 1987.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1987 c. 1.

[^f00002]: ISBN 0 11 270629 0.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1987/650.