{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-civil-servants-and-others-pensions-regulations-2014/schedule-3/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-civil-servants-and-others-pensions-regulations-2014/schedule-3/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1964",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-civil-servants-and-others-pensions-regulations-2014",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Meaning of “eligible service”",
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule, “eligible service” in relation to a person to whom this Schedule applies (P) means the aggregate of the periods of service (expressed in years) referred to in sub-paragraph (2) which fall within P’s current period of scheme employment to which sub-paragraph (3) applies.\n(2) The periods referred to in this sub-paragraph are—\n(a) any period of service during which P has a partnership pension account to which P’s employer is paying contributions;\n(b) any period which counts as qualifying service under the 2002 Section or the 2007 Section which is qualifying partnership service in relation to P; and\n(c) any period during which P is in pensionable service under alpha which is qualifying partnership service in relation to P.\n(3) This sub-paragraph applies to a period of service in scheme employment in respect of which P—\n(a) receives pensionable earnings; or\n(b) is treated as receiving assumed pay.\n(4) If a person (P) to whom this Schedule applies is in part-time service at any time during the periods referred to in sub-paragraph (2), the eligible service in respect of the period during which P is in part-time service is—\nA(N×52.2)yearswhere–\nA is the number of hours of P’s part-time service in the period in question (excluding meal breaks, unless they are paid for part-time staff); and\nN is the number of weekly full-time conditioned hours in the period in question for a person in the same grade as P (excluding meal breaks unless they are paid for part-time staff).\n(5) If the number of weekly full-time conditioned hours varies during the period in question, the calculation in sub-paragraph (4) must be made separately for each period within the period of part-time service in question during which that number remains the same.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 inserted (1.4.2015) by The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/602), regs. 1(2), 2(4), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1964/schedule/3/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:08:32.082597+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."
}