{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997/schedule-3/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/3001",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Pensions Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph 2, the maximum length of the period in respect of which an election may be made under regulation C4 or C9 is\nA-B, where—\nA is the length of time specified in the second column of the Table below against the person’s adjusted age, and\nB is the length of any additional period already purchased or in the course of being purchased by him.\nTABLE\nAdjusted age\nLength of time\nUnder 50\n30 years\n50 and under 51\n23 years\n51 and under 52\n16 years\n52 and under 53\n9 years\n53 and under 54\n2 years\n54 and over\nTwice the difference in days between the adjusted age and 55 years\n(2) A person’s adjusted age—\n(a) if the person has continued in pensionable employment since the start of his first such employment and has not been credited with reckonable service on the acceptance of a transfer value in respect of comparable British service, is his age at the start of his first pensionable employment, and\n(b) in any other case, is\nC-D, where—\nC is the person’s age at the start of his most recent pensionable employment, and\nD is the total of the time he had then spent in pensionable employment and the length of any reckonable service with which he has been credited on the acceptance of a transfer value in respect of comparable British service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/3001/schedule/3/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}