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The Teachers (Compensation for Redundancy and Premature Retirement) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

S.I. 2000/664 · Made 8 March 2000

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EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 8th March 2000

Laid before Parliament 9th March 2000

Coming into force

Regulation 5 1st April 2000

Remainder 30th March 2000

The Secretary of State for Education and Employment, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 24 of the Superannuation Act 1972f1, and with the consent of the Treasuryf2, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1972 c. 11.

f2

See S.I. 1981/1670.

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Amendment of Principal Regulations
  3. 3Amendment of Principal Regulations
  4. 4Amendment of Principal Regulations
  5. 5Amendment of Principal Regulations
  6. 6Amendment of Principal Regulations
  7. 7Amendment of Principal Regulations
  8. Signature
  9. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Teachers (Compensation for Redundancy and Premature Retirement) (Amendment) Regulations 2000.

(2)

Except for regulation 5, these Regulations shall come into force on 30th March 2000.

(3)

Regulation 5 shall come into force on 1st April 2000.

(4)

In these Regulations “the Principal Regulations” means the Teachers (Compensation for Redundancy and Premature Retirement) Regulations 1997f1.

2Amendment of Principal Regulations

The Principal Regulations shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

3Amendment of Principal Regulations

In regulation 3f1–

(a)

after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraph–

“(4)

Relevant employment is also employment as a teacher by an accepted function provider (within the meaning of regulation B3A(1) of the Pensions Regulationsf2) in the performance of the functions which it performs on behalf of the local education authority”;

(b)

after paragraph (7)(b)f3 there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph–

“(c)

Category C comprises relevant employment as a teacher by an accepted function provider (within the meaning of regulation B3A(1) of the Pensions Regulations) in the performance of the functions which it performs on behalf of the local education authority.”.

4Amendment of Principal Regulations

In regulation 4 in paragraph (2) for “regulation E4(2) to (7) of the Superannuation Regulations” there shall be substituted “regulation E4(2) to (5A)f1 of the Pensions Regulations”.

5Amendment of Principal Regulations

In regulation 9f1 for “regulation E21(2) or (3)” there shall be substituted “regulation E21(2), (3) or (3A)”.

6Amendment of Principal Regulations

In regulation 22 after paragraph (6A)f1 there shall be inserted the following paragraph–

“(6B)

Where the former employment fell within Category C the accepted function provider (within the meaning of regulation B3A(1) of the Pensions Regulations) shall pay to the Secretary of State on receipt of a written demand a sum equal to the actuarial value of the total compensation payable.”.

7Amendment of Principal Regulations

In Schedule 1 the following shall be inserted in the three columns after the entry for Employment Category Bf1–

“

Cfunction providerfunction provider

”.

Signature

Malcolm Wicks

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Education and Employment

6th March 2000

We consent

Bob Ainsworth

Greg Pope

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

8th March 2000

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Teachers (Compensation for Redundancy and Premature Retirement) Regulations 1997 (“the Principal Regulations”).

Regulation 3 adds to the definition of relevant employment in the Principal Regulations, employment as a teacher by a person who is performing functions on behalf of a local education authority and who has been accepted for the purposes of the teachers pension scheme by the Secretary of State (“an accepted function provider”).

Regulation 4 amends regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations to correct a drafting error in paragraph (2) and to ensure that Part III of the Principal Regulations applies to teachers who fall within Cases A to E of the Teachers' Pensions Regulations 1997.

Regulation 5 amends regulation 9 of the Principal Regulations to provide a rate of supplementary death grant payable to a teacher whose retirement benefits become payable on or after 1st April 2000.

Regulation 6 inserts a new paragraph in regulation 22 of the Principal Regulations to provide for the payment to the Secretary of State of a lump sum equal to the actuarial value of the total compensation payable by an accepted function provider under the Principal Regulations.

Regulation 7 inserts “function provider” into the table of Deciding and Compensating Authorities in Schedule 1.