{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-B15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-B15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1019",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/B15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "B15",
  "heading": "Length of period of membership: calculation of benefit",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of calculating the amount of any benefit under these regulations—\n(a) a period of membership in excess of a number of complete years shall be counted as the appropriate fraction of a year (and accordingly references to the length in years of membership shall be taken as references to the number of complete years and any fraction of a year in the period of membership); and\n(b) subject to paragraph (3), a period of membership in part-time service in local government employment shall be treated as though it had been a proportionately reduced period of membership in whole-time local government employment.\n(2) In paragraph (1)— “the appropriate fraction” means the fraction of which—\n(a) the numerator is the number of complete days comprised in the excess; and\n(b) the denominator is 365; and\n“proportionately reduced” means reduced in the proportion which the number of contractual hours during the period of part-time service in the employment, bears to the number of contractual hours of that employment if it were on a whole-time basis.\n(3) Paragraph (1)(b) does not apply to the calculation of an increase in retirement grant under paragraph 1 of Schedule D2 (preservation of right under the 1974 regulations to increase in standard retirement grant), or in determining a member’s total period of membership for the purposes of regulation D7(2) (qualification for enhancement of pension in cases of ill-health) and is subject to paragraph 4 of Schedule D3 (additional membership in such cases).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1019/regulation/B15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:11:15.645770+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}