{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997/regulation-E17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997/regulation-E17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/3001",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Pensions Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/E17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "E17",
  "heading": "Short-service incapacity grant",
  "text": "(1) A person who—\n(a) has been in pensionable employment for at least one year, and\n(b) has become incapacitated, and\n(c) had not attained the age of 70 when he became incapacitated, and\n(d) is not entitled to payment of retirement benefits the aggregate value of which exceeds the relevant amount,\nis entitled, if he applies for payment within 6 months after the end of his pensionable employment, to an incapacity grant.\n(2) The aggregate value of retirement benefits is the total of the retirement lump sum and the actuarial equivalent of the retirement pension.\n(3) The relevant amount is\nA12×B, where,\nA is the person’s average salary, and\nB is the length of his reckonable service.\n(4) The amount of the incapacity grant is the difference between the relevant amount and the aggregate value of any retirement benefits to which the person is entitled.\n(5) The incapacity grant is not to be paid before the end of the person’s pensionable employment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/665",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers' Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/3001/regulation/E17",
    "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."
}