
2023 No. 1125 (W. 196)
Education, Wales
The School Teachers’ Incentive Payments (Wales) Order 2023
Made 25 October 2023
Laid before Senedd Cymru 27 October 2023
Coming into force 17 November 2023
The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the power conferred on them by section 123(4)(a) of the Education Act 2002, make the following Order.
Title, coming into force, application and interpretation

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(1) The title of this Order is the School Teachers’ Incentive Payments (Wales) Order 2023 and it comes into force on 17 November 2023.
(2) This Order applies to school teachers in Wales.
(3) In this Order—
 “local authority in Wales” (“awdurdod lleol yng Nghymru”) has the meaning given by section 579(1) of the Education Act 1996;
 “school teacher” (“athro neu athrawes ysgol”) has the meaning given by section 122(3) to (6) of the Education Act 2002.
Incentive payments to school teachers

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A lump sum payment made to a school teacher under the Welsh in Education Teacher Retention Bursary Scheme, by a local authority in Wales or the governing body of a school maintained by such an authority, is not to be treated as remuneration for the purpose of section 122(1) of the Education Act 2002.
Jeremy Miles
Minister for Education and Welsh Language, one of the Welsh Ministers
25 October 2023