# The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1995, Regulation B15: Length of period of membership: calculation of benefit


(1) For the purpose of calculating the amount of any benefit under these regulations—
(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
(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.
(2) In paragraph (1)— “the appropriate fraction” means the fraction of which—
(a) the numerator is the number of complete days comprised in the excess; and
(b) the denominator is 365; and
“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.
(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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1019/regulation/B15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-B15
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