{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-regulations-2014/schedule-3/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/512",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Pension Scheme Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-regulations-2014",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“exception” means an exception to section 18(1) of the Act;\n“existing Fair Deal arrangements” means the arrangements by which a person (P) is a member of an occupational pension scheme comparable to the existing scheme and into which P's employer pays contributions in respect of P, following a TUPE transfer from an employer mentioned in Parts 2, 3 or 4 of Schedule 1;\n“final salary benefits” means the benefits accrued in a final salary scheme in respect of which the pension entitlement payable to or in respect of a person’s pensionable service is or may be determined by reference to the person’s final salary;\n...\n“full protection member”, in relation to the existing scheme, has the meaning given in Part 2;\n“protected member”, in relation to the existing scheme, means a full protection member or tapered protection member of that scheme;\n“protection period”—\n(a)for a full protection member of the existing scheme, has the meaning given in Part 2;\n(b)for a tapered protection member of the existing scheme, has the meaning given in Part 3;\n“public service scheme” means a scheme under section 1 of the Act;\n“scheme closing date”, in relation to the existing scheme, means 31st March 2015;\n“tapered protection member”, in relation to the existing scheme, has the meaning given in Part 3;\n“tapered protection closing date” has the meaning given in paragraph 4;\n“transition date” means—\n(a)for a tapered protection member of the existing scheme, the day after the tapered protection closing date;\n(aa) for a full protection member of the existing scheme to whom a retirement pension has become payable under the existing scheme, means the day on which that member becomes an active member of this scheme;\n(ab) for a full protection member of the existing scheme other than a full protection member described in sub-paragraph (aa), means 1st April 2022;\n(b)for a transition member by virtue of the application of paragraph 21 who is not a protected member of the existing scheme, the day after the scheme closing date; and\n(c)for a transition member by virtue of the application of paragraph 22 who is not a protected member of the existing scheme, the day after the Fair Deal transfer date.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 inserted (1.4.2022) by The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/320), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 omitted (1.4.2015) by virtue of The Teachers Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2652), regs. 1, 32(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 substituted (1.4.2015) by The Teachers Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2652), regs. 1, 32(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 inserted (with effect from 1.4.2015) by The Teachers Pensions Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1134), reg. 1(1)(4), 29(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 inserted (1.4.2022) by The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/320), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/512/schedule/3/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}