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152: Schedule 4, page 195, line 4, leave out from “matters” to end of line 8 and insert “in relation to school support staff which relate to or are connected with any of those set out in section 178(2) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992” Member’s explanatory statement This amendment is intended to make the Negotiating Body a collective bargaining body rather than a consultative body by leaving it to the industrial parties to determine the matters which require to be collectively bargained (within the statutory definition of collective bargaining in s.178) and so partially fulfils the requirements of the ILO for free and voluntary collective bargaining.