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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997/regulation-E1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997/regulation-E1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/3001",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Pensions Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/E1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "E1",
  "heading": "Overriding provision as to guaranteed minimum pensions",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a person’s pensionable employment is contracted-out employment.\n(2) Where this regulation applies it overrides anything in these Regulations that is inconsistent with it, except regulations E14 (abatement on re-employment) and E18 (deferment, etc. of benefits).\n(3) Where this regulation applies and the person, in relation to employment up to 6th April 1997, has a guaranteed minimum in relation to benefits under these Regulations—\n(a) unless on the cessation of the pensionable employment he is entitled to a retirement pension at a higher rate, he is from the date on which he attains state pensionable age entitled to a pension at a weekly rate equal to his guaranteed minimum,\n(b) if he attains state pensionable age while in pensionable employment, continues in the same employment for a further period of 5 years and does not then cease to hold it, he is (unless he consents to a postponement of the entitlement) entitled from the end of that period to so much of his retirement pension as equals his guaranteed minimum,\n(c) in the case of a man who dies at any time and leaves a widow, unless she is entitled to a widow’s pension at a higher rate she is, during any such period as is mentioned in section 17(5) of the 1993 Act, entitled to a pension at a weekly rate equal to half his guaranteed minimum, and\n(d) in the case of a woman who dies at any time leaving a widower who is not entitled to a widower’s pension at a higher rate, in circumstances prescribed under section 17(6) of the 1993 Act, the widower is entitled to a pension payable for the period so prescribed.\n(4) The weekly rate of a widower’s pension payable under paragraph (3)(d) is half of that part of the deceased’s guaranteed minimum which is attributable to earnings factors for the period beginning with the tax year 1988-89 and ending with the tax year 1996-7.\n(5) In paragraph (4) “earnings factors” means the earnings factors referred to in section 14(2) of the 1993 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/665",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers' Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2255",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers' Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2198",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers' Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2198",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers' Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/3001/regulation/E1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:26.186253+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."
}