{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-scotland-no-2-regulations-2014/schedule-3/paragraph-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-scotland-no-2-regulations-2014/schedule-3/paragraph-44.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/44",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Application for payment of benefits for pension credit members",
  "text": "(1) If a transition member (P) has not reached normal pension age under the existing scheme when P applies for payment of a pension credit retirement pension under this scheme, P must also apply for payment of benefits in respect of pensionable service under the existing scheme.\n(2) If P has reached normal pension age under the existing scheme, P may apply for payment of a pension credit retirement pension in respect of pensionable service under—\n(a) either the existing scheme or this scheme; or\n(b) both the existing scheme and this scheme.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 44 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/44",
    "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."
}