Explanatory note

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.