Section 16: Emoluments to teachers
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16. Emoluments to teachers
(1) Notwithstanding section 15, the Authority shall deduct from the grant
or provisional grant payable to a secondary or pre-vocational school, the aggregate amount of the emoluments payable by that school to its staff and,
subject to subsection (2), shall pay such emoluments directly to the members of the staff concerned without incurring any liability to the secondary or
pre-vocational school or any other person.
(2) No payment of emoluments shall be made to a member of the staff
under subsection (1) unless the Authority is satisfied that the emoluments
are due.
(3) Where the emoluments of any member of the staff employed by a
secondary or pre-vocational school are paid directly to him by the Authority,
that member of the staff shall have no claim against the secondary or prevocational school in respect of his services for the month for which he has
received his emoluments from the Authority.
(4) Notwithstanding any other enactment, where the emoluments of a
member of the staff are paid directly to him by the Authority—
(a) the Authority shall not be regarded as the employer of that person by reason of the payment of the emoluments to him;
(b) the secondary or pre-vocational school shall always remain the
employer of that person and shall, in relation to that person, be
responsible for matters of promotion and supervision;
(c) any amount overpaid to a member of the staff by the Authority
shall be set off against any future emoluments payable to that
person; and
(d) matters of discipline and dismissal of a member of the staff shall
be within the jurisdiction of such board of discipline and dismissal as may be prescribed and on such terms and conditions as
may be generally and specifically prescribed.
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(5) In this section, “member of the staff” means any member of the
teaching and non-teaching staff of a secondary or pre-vocational school,
other than the manager.
[S. 16 amended by Act 56 of 1983; Act 55 of 1985.]