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  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Pensions Regulations 1997",
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  "text": "Subject to paragraph 32—\n(a) for the purpose of calculating retirement benefits, and grants under regulations E17, E20 and E21, and\n(b) for the purposes of regulation E32(2) (restriction of effective reckonable service to 45 years, etc.),\nspecified country service counts as reckonable service at 1.5 times its actual length.",
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