“17A Employment of specified resource teachers to whom leadership payments have been allocated

• “(1) This clause applies to a board that employs 1 or more specified resource teachers.

  “(2) A board must not employ specified resource teachers to whom leadership payments have been allocated (whether permanently or otherwise) if the total of those leadership payments would exceed the number of leadership payments calculated for the school under subclause (3).

  “(3) The number of leadership payments referred to in subclause (2) is calculated for a school by—

  • “(a) multiplying the number of resource teachers: learning and behaviour allocated to the school for the 2013 school year by the Secretary by 0.6; and

  • “(b) adding 6 to the resulting product; and

  • “(c) if the resulting sum is not a whole number,—

    • “(i) decreasing it to the nearest lower whole number, if it ends in less than 0.5; or

    • “(ii) increasing it to the nearest higher whole number, if it ends in 0.5 or greater.

  “(4) In this clause,—

  “leadership payment, for a specified resource teacher and a board, means an entitlement—

  • “(a) to a salary element that is additional to the salary that is otherwise payable to the specified resource teacher; and

  • “(b) that is allocated (whether permanently or otherwise) to the specified resource teacher by the board

  “specified resource teachers means regular teachers who are—

  • “(a) resource teachers: learning and behaviour; or

  • “(b) resource teacher managers: learning and behaviour.”