{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teachers-pay-and-conditions-no2-order-2001/article-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1254",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Teachers' Pay and Conditions) (No.2) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teachers-pay-and-conditions-no2-order-2001",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "School Teachers' Pay and Conditions",
  "text": "For paragraph 21 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“21.1 The relevant body may award a first, second, third, fourth or with effect from 1st April 2001 a fifth recruitment and retention allowance to a classroom teacher in accordance with paragraphs 21.2 to 21.7. From 1st April 2001 the annual value of a recruitment and retention allowance shall be determined in accordance with the following table:\nRecruitment and retention allowances from 1st April 2001\nAllowance\nAmount\n£\n1st\n942\n2nd\n1,848\n3rd\n2,802\n4th\n3,903\n5th\n5,085\n21.2.1 The relevant body shall determine when making an award under paragraph 21.1 whether the allowance should be awarded for a fixed period of time or that it is to be retained while the classroom teacher remains in the same post.\n21.2.2 The relevant body may review the award of an allowance under paragraph 21.1 and paragraph 21.2.1 at any time, but where the review takes place before the expiry of the fixed period of time for which the allowance was awarded or, as the case may be, while the classroom teacher is in the post in respect of which the allowance was awarded, they may not determine that a lower allowance should be awarded under paragraph 21.1 and paragraph 21.2.1 or that the allowance should be withdrawn.\n21.2.3 Where the relevant body determines that a classroom teacher who holds a recruitment and retention allowance awarded under paragraph 21.1 and paragraph 21.2.1 while he remains in the same post should be awarded a higher recruitment and retention allowance which is awarded for a fixed period, that teacher shall retain his original recruitment and retention allowance while he remains in the same post if the higher recruitment and retention allowance is subsequently withdrawn following the expiry of the fixed period.\n21.2.4 Where in accordance with paragraph 21.4 of the 2000 Document the relevant body first review the award of a recruitment and retention allowance which was made under paragraph 21 of that Document, they may determine to withdraw the allowance or to replace it with an allowance or allowances under this paragraph.\n21.3 The relevant body may for the current or previous pay year award a recruitment and retention allowance, or part of such allowance, in the form of a lump sum.\n21.4.1 With effect from 1st April 2001, the relevant body may award a classroom teacher a recruitment and retention allowance, or part of such allowance, in the form of a lump sum payable at the end of a period of unbroken employment at the same school or in the case of an unattached teacher with the same authority.\n21.4.2 The period of unbroken employment referred to in paragraph 21.4.1 shall not—\n(a) start before the beginning of the school term in which the award is made, or\n(b) exceed three years.\n21.4.3 An award under paragraph 21.4.1 may if the teacher agrees replace in whole or in part an existing award of a recruitment and retention allowance.\n21.5 The value of a classroom teacher’s total recruitment and retention allowance in a pay year including recruitment and retention allowance payments made otherwise than pursuant to an award under paragraph 21.4.1 shall not exceed the annual value in that pay year of the fifth recruitment and retention allowance.\n21.6.1 Subject to paragraph 21.6.2 the relevant body shall determine the terms and conditions of any award under paragraph 21.4.1.\n21.6.2 The terms and conditions shall provide that, in the event of the teacher’s death or (as the case may be) early retirement on grounds of ill-health before the end of the period covered by the award, he shall be entitled to the proportion of the award that the period before his death or early retirement bears to the period covered by the award.\n21.7 The relevant body shall not award a recruitment and retention allowance under paragraph 21.3 where they consider that the classroom teacher’s service in the previous pay year has not been satisfactory, or make a payment pursuant to an award under paragraph 21.4.1 in respect of a period during which they consider that the teacher’s service has not been satisfactory.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1254/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:52:30.304995+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}