Regulation D1 Reckonable serviceI1
England, Wales and Scotland
Reckonable service is time that counts both for the purpose of ascertaining entitlement to benefits under these regulations and for the purpose of calculating them.
Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) and regulations D3 and D8, a pensionable employee is entitled to reckon as reckonable service, in relation to an employment in which he is a pensionable employee—
any period for which he has paid contributions under regulation C2 or C3,
any period which he became entitled to reckon as reckonable service by virtue of regulation D1(1)(b) to (h) of the 1974 regulations,
any period which he is entitled to reckon as reckonable service by virtue of regulations D4 to D7 or Part F (war service).
A period of absence from duty without remuneration, otherwise than on leave of absence, may not be reckoned as reckonable service unless—
that period was a relevant absence, and
the amount specified in regulation C4(7) has been paid in respect of every relevant contribution period all or part of which was included in that relevant absence.
Where the amount specified in regulation C4(7) has been paid in respect of a relevant contribution period, so much of any relevant absence as was included in that period may be reckoned as reckonable service whether or not a contract of employment continued to subsist during the relevant absence or any part of it.