{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997/regulation-E11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997/regulation-E11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/3001",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Pensions Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/E11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "E11",
  "heading": "Allocation of part of retirement pension",
  "text": "(1) A person who has become qualified for retirement benefits may, unless he becomes entitled to payment of them by virtue of regulation E4(4) (incapacity), allocate part of his retirement pension to the provision of an alternative benefit.\n(2) The alternative benefit may be either—\n(a) an annuity for life, commencing on the death of the person making the allocation (“the allocator”), for a surviving spouse or dependant, or\n(b) an annuity payable to the allocator while the allocator and allocator’s spouse are both alive, and if the spouse is the survivor a subsequent annuity for life, at twice the rate of the first annuity, for the spouse.\n(3) The rates of the annuities mentioned in paragraph (2) shall be determined in accordance with tables prepared by the Government Actuary.\n(4) An allocation must be made by delivering a declaration to the Secretary of State, and in paragraph (2) “spouse” refers to status at the time of its delivery.\n(5) Further provisions as to an allocation under this regulation are contained in Schedule 11.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev (with transtl provns) (1.1.2007)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/3122",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers’ Pensions etc. (Reform Amendments) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/665",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers' Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "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/E11",
    "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."
}