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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teachers-pay-and-conditions-order-1998/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/903",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Teachers' Pay and Conditions) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teachers-pay-and-conditions-order-1998",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document 1997 (“the Document”) by uprating the amounts of salary and certain allowances. The following are increased:\n(a) the head and deputy head teachers' pay spine and ranges set out in paragraph 4 of the Document;\n(b) the classroom teachers' pay spine set out in paragraph 9 of the Document;\n(c) the unqualified teachers' pay scale set out in paragraph 15 of the Document;\n(d) the London Area allowances set out in paragraph 21.1 of the Document.\nIn each case there are two increases, the first for the period 1st April 1998 to 30th November 1998 and the second as from 1st December 1998.\nThe Document is published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office and is obtainable from book shops of The Stationery Office Limited and through booksellers.\nThe retrospective effect of these changes is authorised by section 2(4)(f) of the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Act 1991.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/903/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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