{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-scotland-no-2-regulations-2014/schedule-3/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-scotland-no-2-regulations-2014/schedule-3/paragraph-1.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": "schedule/3/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“closing date”, in relation to a transition member, means—\n(a)for a member who is not a protected member, the scheme closing date; or\n(b)for a tapered protection member, the closing date for that member; or\n(c) if P is a full protection member of the existing scheme, 31st March 2022;\n“exception” means an exception to section 18(1) of the Act;\n“existing scheme rules” means the provisions of the existing scheme, an existing club scheme or an existing public service scheme;\n“final salary benefits” means the benefits accrued in a final salary scheme in respect of which the pension entitlement payable to or in respect of a person’s pensionable service is or may be determined by reference to the person’s final salary;\n“full protection member”, in relation to the existing scheme, has the meaning given in Part 2;\n“protected member” means a full protection member or tapered protection member;\n“protection period”—\n(a)for a full protection member, has the meaning given in Part 2;\n(b)for a tapered protection member, has the meaning given in Part 3;\n“public service scheme” means a scheme under section 1 of the Act;\n“scheme closing date”, in relation to the existing scheme, means 31st March 2015;\n“tapered protection member”, in relation to the existing scheme, has the meaning given in Part 3;\n“tapered protection closing date” has the meaning given in paragraph 5;\n“transition date” means—\n(a)for a tapered protection member of the existing scheme, the day after the tapered protection closing date;\n(aa) for a full protection member of the existing scheme, other than a full protection member to whom a retirement pension has become payable under the existing scheme, 1st April 2022;\n(c)for a transition member by virtue of the application of paragraph 13 who is not a protected member of the existing scheme, the day after the scheme closing date.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in sch. 3 para. 1 inserted (1.4.2022) by The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/102), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in sch. 3 para. 1 inserted (1.4.2022) by The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/102), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in sch. 3 para. 1 substituted (1.4.2015) by The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/97), regs. 1, 29"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in sch. 3 para. 1 inserted (1.4.2022) by The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/102), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 1 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/schedule/3/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}