Regulation 6 Additional service credit

(1)

Subject to paragraph (3), the deciding authority, ascertained from the first and second columns of the table in Part I of the Schedule, may, within 6 months after the material date, credit an eligible teacher with a period of service not exceeding the shortest of–

(a)

the period by which his effective service falls short of 40 years,

(b)

the period beginning on the day following the material date and ending with his 65th birthday, less, where paragraph 1 of Part II of the Schedule applies, any period required by paragraph 2 to be deducted,

(c)

the length of his effective service, and

(d)

10 years.

(2)

An eligible teacher’s effective service comprises–

(a)

any period which he is entitled to count as reckonable service, and

(b)

if his former employment was not pensionable employment, any period which he would have been entitled so to count if it had been.

(3)

If his former employment fell within category E or F, an eligible teacher may not be credited with a period of service without the consent–

(a)

where the employment fell within category E, of every local education authority providing the institution with assistance, and

(b)

where it fell within category F, of the Secretary of State.