{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-scotland-no-2-regulations-2014/regulation-79",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-scotland-no-2-regulations-2014/regulation-79.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/79",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "79",
  "heading": "Qualifying for retirement benefits",
  "text": "(1) A person (P) is qualified for retirement benefits in respect of a period of pensionable service if—\n(a) P has at least 2 years’ qualifying service; or\n(b) after P enters pensionable service, a transfer value payment or cash transfer sum is accepted under Part 10 (transfers) in respect of P’s rights accrued under a personal pension scheme.\n(2) In these Regulations, a period of qualifying service is the total of the following—\n(a) any period of pensionable service under this scheme (other than a period of post-benefit service);\n(b) if after P enters pensionable service under this scheme a transfer value payment or cash transfer sum has been accepted under Part 10 in respect of rights accrued under another occupational pension scheme, a period equal to the person’s period as an active member in that scheme;\n(c) for a transition member with continuity of service, any period of pensionable service under the existing scheme before the closing date.\n(3) Any pensionable service in respect of which a person’s rights under this scheme or the existing scheme are extinguished is not qualifying service.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 79 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/79",
    "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."
}