{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-scotland-no-2-regulations-2014/schedule-3/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-scotland-no-2-regulations-2014/schedule-3/paragraph-9.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/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Meaning of “tapered protection member”",
  "text": "(1) A person (P) is a tapered protection member of an existing scheme on the scheme closing date if sub-paragraph (1A) or (1B) applies.\n(1A) This sub-paragraph applies if—\n(a) on that date, P is an active member of the existing scheme;\n(b) on 31st March 2012, P was an active member of the existing scheme; and\n(c) unless P dies, P would reach normal pension age under the existing scheme between 2nd April 2022 and 30th September 2025 (inclusive).\n(1B) This sub-paragraph applies if—\n(a) P was an active member of an existing public service scheme on the scheme closing date and on 31st March 2012;\n(b) P enters eligible employment not more than 5 years after leaving pensionable service under the existing public service scheme;\n(c) a pension in respect of all of P’s service in the existing public service scheme has not become payable on or after 1st April 2012; and\n(d) unless P dies, P would reach normal pension age under—\n(i) the existing scheme between 2nd April 2022 and 30th September 2025 (inclusive); and\n(ii) the existing public service scheme on or before 30th September 2025.\n(2) P ceases to be a tapered protection member on whichever of the following days occurs first—\n(a) P’s closing date; or\n(b) the day on which P ceases to be an active member of the existing scheme.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in sch. 3 para. 9(1) substituted (1.4.2015) by The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/97), regs. 1, 32(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in sch. 3 para. 9(1) substituted (with effect from 1.4.2015) by The Teachers’ Superannuation and Pension Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/62), regs. 1(2), 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 9(1B) inserted (1.4.2015) by The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/97), regs. 1, 32(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 9 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/9",
    "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."
}