Citation, commencement and application

1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the School Teachers’ Incentive Payments (England) Order 2012 and comes into force on 1st September 2012.

(2) This Order applies only in relation to school teachers in England.

Interpretation

2. In this Order—

“authority” means a local authority in England;

“credit” means a credit awarded by the higher education institution provider of the Mathematics Specialist Teacher Programme.

Incentive payments to school teachers

3. A lump sum payment made to a school teacher—

(a) by an authority or the governing body of a school maintained by an authority,

(b) following that teacher’s attainment of 60 credits at masters level at the completion of the second year of the Mathematics Specialist Teacher Programme funded by the Department for Education,

is not to be treated as remuneration for the purpose of section 122(1) of the Education Act 2002.