Teaching Salaries (Scotland) Act 2018 1

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SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT

Teaching Salaries (Scotland) Bill

SP Bill 64

(as introduced)

An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision for regular increases in the salaries of teachers
employed by education authorities; and for connected purposes.

Obligation to provide funding

1 The public-sector teacher funding obligation

(1) There is to be a public-sector teacher funding obligation.
(2) The Scottish Ministers are subject to the obligation when they prepare a draft local
government finance order for a financial year.
(3) The obligation is that the Scottish Ministers must, in preparing that order, secure that such
resources are appropriately allocated as are sufficient to enable a local authority to increase
by the relevant percentage the salary it pays to each teacher it employs.
(4) That increase is an increase which—
(a) is relative to the salary paid to the employee in the financial year previous to the one
in relation to which the draft order is prepared (“the previous year”), and
(b) is applied to the salary paid to the employee in the financial year in relation to which
the draft order is prepared (“the current year”).
(5) The relevant percentage is the greater of—
(a) the percentage increase between the retail price index for April in the previous year
and March in the current year,
(b) another percentage determined by the Scottish Ministers.

2 The obligation in 2019/20

As respects the financial year 2019/20, section 1 has effect as if there were substituted for
subsection (5)—
“(5) The relevant percentage is 10 percent.”
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General

3 Interpretation
In this Act—
“local government finance order” has the meaning given in schedule 12 of the Local
Government Finance Act 1992;
“retail price index”, in relation to a month, means the retail price index published by the
Government Statistical Service for that month;
“teacher” means a teacher appointed by a local authority under section 87 of the
Education (Scotland) Act 1980.

4 Commencement
This Act comes into force on the day after Royal Assent.

5 Short title
The short title of this Act is the Teaching Salaries (Scotland) Act 2018.