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Regulation 88 The new employment conditionI1

Scotland

(1)

A person (P) meets the new employment condition if—

(a)

P leaves all eligible employment;

(b)

within 6 months after leaving all eligible employment, P enters a new employment; and

(c)

on the day after the entitlement day referred to in regulation 89 the reduced annual rate of P’s pensionable earnings in the new employment does not exceed 80% of the average annual rate of P’s pensionable earnings for the last 6 months of the previous employment.

(2)

In this regulation—

  • “a new employment” means—

    1. (a)

      one or more new eligible employments;

    2. (b)

      one or more employments with an employer mentioned in any paragraph in Part 2 of Schedule 1 that is not an eligible employment where P’s normal duties in the employment include providing education or services ancillary to education (other than administrative services); or

    3. (c)

      one or more new eligible employments and one or more employments mentioned in paragraph (b); and

  • “previous employment” means one or more previous eligible employments.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Reg. 88 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(2)(b)