{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teachers-pay-and-conditions-order-2000/article-18",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/868",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Teachers' Pay and Conditions) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teachers-pay-and-conditions-order-2000",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "School Teachers' Pay and Conditions",
  "text": "For paragraphs 21.1 to 21.3 there shall be substituted—\n“21.1.1 A classroom teacher taking up an appointment which is his second or subsequent one as a teacher (whether or not after a break in service and whether on a full-time, part-time, regular, day to day or short term basis) on or after 1st April 2000 (but not in circumstances where paragraph 32 applies) shall be paid the greater of the salary at the time of appointment determined under paragraphs 17 and 18 and the minimum number of points above the lowest point on pay spine A set out in paragraph 17.7 calculated in accordance with paragraphs 21.2 to 21.4.\n21.1.2 Paragraph 21A shall apply where a classroom teacher who was last being paid under the provisions of the 1998 Document or an earlier Document was entitled to be paid at the minimum number of points calculated in accordance with paragraphs 21.2 to 21.4 of the Document at any time during the period starting on 1st September 1999 and ending immediately before 1st April 2000.\n21.1.3 Paragraph 17 shall apply where a classroom teacher who was last being paid under the provisions of this Document was entitled to be paid at the minimum number of points calculated in accordance with paragraphs 21.2 to 21.4 of the Document at any time during the period starting on 1st September 1999 and ending immediately before 1st April 2000, with the modification that references to an entitlement or salary under paragraph 17 of the Document include an entitlement or salary determined by reference to the minimum number of points calculated in accordance with paragraphs 21.2 to 21.4 of the Document.\n21.2 Subject to paragraphs 21.3 and 21.4, the minimum number of points is:\n(a) if he was last being paid under the provisions of this Document but he was not entitled to be paid under the provisions of this Document in the period starting on 1st September 1999 and ending immediately before 1st April 2000, the number of points in respect of a good honours degree and experience which he then held;\n(b) if he was last being paid as a qualified teacher under provisions of the 1987 to 1998 Documents,\n(i) in the case of a teacher last paid under the 1993 to 1998 Documents, the number of points in respect of a good honours degree and experience which he then held, or\n(ii) in the case of a teacher last paid under the 1987 to 1992 Documents, the equivalent scale point,\nascertained in accordance with the following table—\n1987–1990\n1991–1992\n1993–1998\n1999\nDocuments: last point on standard scale\nDocuments: last point on standard scale\nDocuments: points\nDocument: minimum number of points\n1\n—\n0\n0\n2\n1\n0\n0\n3\n2\n1\n0\n4\n3\n2\n1\n5\n4\n3\n2\n6\n5\n4\n3\n7\n6\n5\n4\n8\n7\n6\n5\n9\n8\n7\n6\n10\n9\n8\n7\n11\n10\n9\n8\n(c) if he was last being paid as a qualified teacher under the provisions of the document published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office pursuant to section 2(4) of the Remuneration of Teachers Act 1965 entitled “Scales of Salaries for Teachers: Primary and Secondary Education, England and Wales 1974” or any subsequent such document, the equivalent such point ascertained in accordance with the following table:\nScales 1974 to 30.9.87\nScale 1\nScale 2\nScale 2 (S)\nScale 3\nScale 3 (S)\nScale 4\nSenior Teacher Scale\nMinimum number of points\n0–4\n0\n0\n0\n5\n1\n1\n0\n6\n2\n2\n1\n7–8\n3–4\n3–4\n2\n9–10\n5–6\n5–6\n0\n0\n3\n11–12\n7–8\n7\n1–2\n1\n4\n13–14\n9–10\n8–9\n3–4\n2–3\n5\n15\n11\n10\n5\n4\n0\n6\n12\n11\n6\n5\n1\n7\n7–10\n6–9\n2–8\n0–8\n8\nor\n(d) if he was last being paid as a qualified teacher under the provisions of a pre-1974 Document the equivalent such point determined by the relevant body.\n21.3 A classroom teacher who was last employed as a head teacher or deputy head teacher shall not be paid at less than spine point 9 on pay spine A set out in paragraph 17.7. For the purpose of this paragraph “deputy head teacher” includes a teacher designated as a second master or second mistress under section 5(2) of the 1983 Document.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/868/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:15:38.547975+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."
}