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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teachers-pay-and-conditions-order-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1433",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Teachers' Pay and Conditions) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teachers-pay-and-conditions-order-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis 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.\nBy 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.\nBy 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.\nThe Order revokes the Education (School Teachers' Pay and conditions of Employment) Order 1987.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1433/note",
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  "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."
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