{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-scotland-no-2-regulations-2014/regulation-149",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-scotland-no-2-regulations-2014/regulation-149.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2014/292",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) ( No. 2) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-scotland-no-2-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/149",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "149",
  "heading": "Enhancement of child pension",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies if a member (D) has not reached prospective normal pension age and—\n(a) dies in service; or\n(b) dies as a pensioner member after an ill health pension and a total incapacity pension become payable to D.\n(2) If this regulation applies, the long-term rate of child pension is—\nR×S EC\nwhere—\nR is—\n(i) 37.5%, if a surviving adult pension is payable;\n(ii) 50%, if a surviving adult pension is not payable or has ceased to be payable;\nS is the sum of the following amounts—\n(i) the amount of D’s accrued earned pension as at the date of D’s death; and\n(ii) the amount found by multiplying half D’s prospective service (in years and fractions of a year) by 1/57th of D’s annual rate of pensionable earnings as at the date of D’s death;\nEC is—\n(i) 2, if a child pension is payable to no more than 2 eligible children; or\n(ii) the number of eligible children, if a child pension is payable to more than 2 eligible children; and\n“D’s prospective service” means the period (in years and fractions of a year) beginning with the day after the date of D’s death and ending on the day on which D would have reached prospective normal pension age.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 149 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/292/regulation/149",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:33:09.984508+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."
}