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Paragraph 16 I1

Scotland

(1)

Employment as a teacher of a kind not elsewhere specified in this Schedule if—

(a)

the teacher is employed by an education authority otherwise than in a public school;

(b)

the teacher’s employer receives grant either from the Scottish Ministers or a local authority for the purposes of employing him or her and he or she elects by notice in writing to the Scottish Ministers within 3 months of the commencement of employment, with the agreement of his or her employer, that his or her service is to be pensionable employment and the Scottish Ministers agree; F1...

(c)

the teacher’s employment is approved by the Scottish Ministers for the purposes of this Schedule and he or she elects by notice in writing to the Scottish Ministers within 3 months of the commencement of employment, with the agreement of his or her employer, that his or her service is to be pensionable employment and the Scottish Ministers so agree F2; or

(d)

the teacher is employed by any other body constituted under an Act relating to education and which the Scottish Ministers agree to treat as an employing authority for the purposes of this part of the scheme.

(2)

Any election made under paragraph 4(b) or (c) of Schedule 1 to the Teachers Superannuation (Scotland) Regulations 1977f1 or under paragraph 14(1)(b) or (c) of Schedule 2 to the 2005 Regulations is to be treated as having been made under sub-paragraph (1)(b) or (c) above.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Word in sch. 1 para. 16(1)(b) omitted (1.8.2025) by virtue of The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/152), regs. 1, 4(c)(i)

F2

Sch. 1 para. 16(1)(d) and word inserted (1.8.2025) by The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/152), regs. 1, 4(c)(ii)

Commencement

I1

Sch. 1 para. 16 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(2)(b)

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1977/1360.