{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997/schedule-4/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/4/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“the principal election” means the election under regulation C4(2);\n“the past period” means the period specified under regulation C4(7)(a);\n“the contribution period” means the period specified under regulation C4(7)(c).\n(2) Any reference in this Part, in relation to a person who has spent any part of the contribution period in part-time employment, to a period which a person is entitled to count as reckonable service arising from the contribution period is a reference to a period calculated by applying the formula in regulation D1(2) to the contribution period.\n(3) During any period for which a person is paying additional contributions for a current period under regulation C9 or C10, for the purposes of this Part—\n(a) he is to be treated as being in full-time pensionable employment, and\n(b) his contributable salary is the notional salary described in regulation C9(7)(a) or, as the case may be, regulation C10(4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/3001/schedule/4/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."
}