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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-contracting-out-administration-of-the-teachers-pensions-scheme-order-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2003/0110457560",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracting Out (Administration of the Teachers' Pensions Scheme) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-contracting-out-administration-of-the-teachers-pensions-scheme-order-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order enables the Secretary of State, who has functions conferred on him by regulations made under the Superannuation Act 1972, the Pension Schemes Act 1993 and the Pensions Act 1995 regarding the teachers' pension scheme, to authorise another person, or that person’s employees, to carry out on his behalf those functions to such extent as is specified in the authorisation.\nThis Order revokes the Contracting Out (Administration of the Teachers' Superannuation Scheme) Order 1996. This Order differs from the revoked Order in that it includes the functions conferred by regulations made under section 172 of the Pensions Act 1995.\nThe current regulations made under sections 9, 12 and 25 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Superannuation Act 1972, sections 16(2) to (4) and 130(a) of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 and section 172 of the Pensions Act 1995 include:\nthe Colleges of Education (Compensation) Regulations 1975 (S.I. 1975/1092);\nthe Teachers (Compensation) (Advanced Further Education) Regulations 1983 (S.I. 1983/856);\nthe Teachers' Superannuation (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2924) as amended by S.I. 1997/3001, S.I. 2000/666 and S.I. 2000/3028;\nthe Teachers' Superannuation (Provision of Information and Administrative Expenses etc) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2282) as amended by S.I. 2001/3649.\nthe Teachers (Compensation for Redundancy and Premature Retirement) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/311) as amended by S.I. 1998/2256, S.I. 1999/608 and S.I. 2000/664.\nthe Teachers' Pensions Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/3001) as amended by S.I. 1998/2255, S.I.1999/607, S.I. 2000/665, S.I. 2000/2431, S.I. 2000/3028, S.I. 2001/871 and S.I. 2002/3058;\nthe Teachers' Pensions (Employers' Supplementary Contributions) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/502); and\nthe Teachers' Pensions (Contributable Salary) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/907).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2003/0110457560/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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