{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-regulations-2014/regulation-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-regulations-2014/regulation-34.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/34",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Pensionable earnings for school teachers",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to an active member (P) who is a school teacher.\n(2) P's pensionable earnings for any pay period are the sum of the following amounts paid in that pay period to P by P's employer in respect of P's pensionable service—\n(a) all salary and allowances paid for the performance of P's contractual duties in accordance with a pay order;\n(b) the amount of any payment in respect of overtime;\n(c) any salary or statutory pay paid while P is on sick leave, carer’s leave, maternity leave, paternity leave, ... parental leave shared parental leave , parental bereavement leave neonatal care leave, or adoption leave;\n(d) an amount equal to any part of P's salary which P has given up the right to receive under a salary sacrifice arrangement.\n(3) P's pensionable earnings do not include any amounts mentioned in regulation 36.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 34(2)(c) inserted (6.4.2024) by The Carer's Leave (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/266), regs. 1(2), 6(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 34(2)(c) 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(5)(a) (with art. 35(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 34(2)(c) 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(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 34(2)(c) 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(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 34(2)(c) 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(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/512/regulation/34",
    "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."
}