{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-remediable-service-regulations-2023/schedule/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-remediable-service-regulations-2023/schedule/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/871",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-remediable-service-regulations-2023",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“beneficiary” means a person who has become entitled to receive any death benefit;\n“child”, except in the term “eligible child”, means a person under the age of 18;\n“death benefit” means a benefit payable under a teacher pension scheme following the death of a member of that scheme;\n“election” means an opted-out service election, an immediate choice election or a deferred choice election decision;\n“eligible decision-maker” means the person who may make—\n(a) an opted-out service election in accordance with regulation 6(2)(b);\n(b) an immediate choice decision in accordance with regulation 8(2)(b);\n(c) a deferred choice decision in accordance with regulation 12(2)(b).\n(2) In this Schedule, a reference to—\n(a) a beneficiary is a reference to a beneficiary of death benefits in relation to M’s remediable teacher service;\n(b) an eligible child is a reference to an eligible child of M;\n(c) M is a reference to the deceased remedy member in respect of whose remediable teacher service an election may be made;\n(d) a surviving adult is a reference to a surviving adult in relation to M.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 1 in force at 1.10.2023, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/871/schedule/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:41:51.214728+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."
}