{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-regulations-2014/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-regulations-2014/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/512",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Pension Scheme Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Service not pensionable unless member is entitled to pay",
  "text": "(1) A person (P) in an eligible employment is not in pensionable service in relation to that employment unless P is entitled to be paid—\n(a) P's salary in respect of that employment;\n(b) if P is on adoption leave, maternity leave, parental leave, shared parental leave , parental bereavement leave , neonatal care leave, paternity leave or carer’s leave ...—\n(i) at least half P's salary in respect of that employment; or\n(ii) statutory pay; or\n(c) if P is on sick leave, at least half P's salary in respect of that employment.\n(2) P is not in pensionable service in relation to an employment during a period of non-pensionable family leave, non-pensionable sick leave or unpaid leave from that employment.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(1)(b) inserted (31.12.2014) by The Shared Parental Leave and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3255), arts. 1(2), 32(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(1)(b) inserted (6.4.2020) by The Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/354), regs. 1, 33(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 23(1)(b): comma substituted for word (6.4.2024) by The Carer's Leave (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/266), regs. 1(2), 6(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(1)(b) inserted (6.4.2025) by The Neonatal Care Leave and Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/201), regs. 1(2), 24(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(1)(b) inserted (6.4.2024) by The Carer's Leave (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/266), regs. 1(2), 6(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(1)(b) omitted (5.4.2015) by virtue of The Shared Parental Leave and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3255), arts. 1(3), 32(3)(b) (with art. 35(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/512/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:24:37.807691+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."
}