Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 608

The Teachers (Compensation for Redundancy and Premature Retirement) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

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    (2) In these regulations "the principal regulations" means the Teachers (Compensation for Redundancy and Premature Retirement) Regulations 1997[3].

Amendment of principal regulations
     2. The principal regulations shall be further amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 8.

     3.  - (1) In regulation 2(2) for the definition of "appropriate person" there shall be substituted the following definition-

" "appropriate person" means-
(a) before 1st September 1999-


(i) in the case of a person employed at an aided school within the meaning of section 32 of the 1996 Act or at a grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school, the local education authority, and

(ii) in the case of any other employee, the person by whom he was employed; and



(b) on and after 1st September 1999-



(i) in the case of a person employed at a foundation or voluntary aided school or a foundation special school within the meaning of section 20 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998[4], the local education authority; and

(ii) in the case of any other employee, the person by whom he was employed;".

    (2) After paragraph (3) of that regulation there shall be inserted the following paragraph-

    " (4) For the purposes of these regulations a grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school shall, before 1st September 1999, be treated as a school maintained by a local education authority.".

     4. In regulation 3-

(a) in paragraph (3) for "paragraphs 1, 1A, 3" there shall be inserted "paragraphs 1 (as read with regulation 10 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (Modification) Regulations 1998[5]), 1A";

(b) paragraph (4) shall be omitted;

(c) in paragraph (7)(a) for "section 115(b) of the 1996 Act (schools)" there shall be substituted "section 115(b) of the 1996 Act or section 49(7) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998[6] (schools)"; and

(d) paragraph (7)(c) shall be omitted.

     5. In regulations 5 and 6(1) for "section 139(1) to (4) of the 1996 Act" there shall be substituted "section 57(1) to (3) of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998".

     6. In regulation 20(3)(b)[7] for

     7. In regulation 22 paragraph (7) shall be omitted.

     8. In Schedule 1 the following shall be omitted from the three respective columns-

C

Governing Body

Secretary of State".

Savings
     9.  - (1) Where before 1st April 1999-

(a) the governing body of a grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school had determined that a payment should be made to a person under regulation 5 or 6 of the principal regulations who had ceased to be employed by them before that date, but

(b) no such payment had been made before that date,

any payment which falls to be made under regulation 5 or 6 of the principal regulations pursuant to the determination shall be made by the governing body of the school despite the amendment to the definition of "appropriate person" made by regulation 3 above.

    (2) Where before 1st April 1999-

(a) a person, who immediately before the date on which he ceased to hold his former employment had been employed at a grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school, had became entitled to compensation under regulation 7 or 12 of the principal regulations; and

(b) any payment of compensation arising from such entitlement had been made, or was due to have been made, under regulation 26 of the principal regulations, regulations 3(7) and 22 of, and Schedule 1 to, the principal regulations shall apply in relation to the continued payment of such compensation without the amendments made by regulations 4, 7 and 8 above.

Charles Clarke
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Education and Employment

2nd March 1999



We consent


Jim Dowd

Clive Betts
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

5th March 1999

[2] See S.I. 1981/1670.back

[3] S.I. 1997/311 as amended by S.I. 1998/2256.back

[4] 1998 c. 31.back

[5] S.I. 1998/2670.back

[6] 1998 c. 31; before 1st September 1999 a grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school is capable of having a delegated budget by virtue of regulation 3 of S.I. 1998/2670.back

[7] Regulation 20(3)(b) was amended by S.I. 1998/2256.back