{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-compensation-for-redundancy-and-premature-retirement-regulations-1997/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-compensation-for-redundancy-and-premature-retirement-regulations-1997/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/311",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers (Compensation for Redundancy and Premature Retirement) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-compensation-for-redundancy-and-premature-retirement-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Discretion to credit an additional period of service",
  "text": "(1) The deciding authority, ascertained from the first and second columns of the table in Part I of Schedule 1, may, within 6 months after the material date, credit an eligible teacher (including an eligible teacher who has since died) with a period of service not exceeding the shortest of—\n(a) the period by which his effective service falls short of 40 years,\n(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 Schedule 1 applies, any period required by paragraph 2 to be deducted,\n(c) the length of his effective service, and\n(d) 10 years.\n(2) An eligible teacher’s effective service comprises—\n(a) any period which he is entitled to count as reckonable service, and\n(b) if his former employment was not pensionable employment, any period which he would have been entitled so to count if it had been.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/311/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:25:48.076925+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."
}