# The Teachers' Pensions Regulations 1997, Paragraph 9


(1) An election under this paragraph may be made where the person has been in part-time pensionable employment at any time during the contribution period.
(2) An election under this paragraph may be—
(a) an election to make a payment such that the person will be entitled to count as reckonable service the number of years which he would have been entitled to count if he had been in full-time pensionable employment throughout such of the contribution period as had elapsed before he ceased to be in pensionable employment (so that paragraph 3 of Schedule 7 will apply accordingly);
(b) an election to complete payment of additional contributions as if he had been in full-time pensionable employment from the date on which he ceased to be in pensionable employment to the end of the contribution period (so that paragraph 3 of Schedule 7 will apply accordingly); or
(c) an election to complete payment of additional contributions as if he had been in full-time pensionable employment throughout the contribution period (so that paragraph 2 of Schedule 7 will apply accordingly);
in each case by making a lump sum payment.
(3) Where the election is made under sub-paragraph (2)(a), the amount of the lump sum payment shall be such amount as would be payable under Part II of this Schedule in order to count as reckonable service the difference between the length of reckonable service arising from such of the contribution period as had elapsed before the person ceased to be in pensionable employment and the length of such service if the person had been in full-time pensionable employment throughout that period.
(4) Where an election is made under sub-paragraph (2)(b), the amount of the lump sum payment is one of the following amounts as appropriate—
(a) the amount referred to in paragraph 8(3) on the assumption that the person would have been in full-time pensionable employment for the remainder of the contribution period;
(b) the amount referred to in paragraph 8(4) on the assumption that the person would have been in full-time employment during such part of the contribution period as would have fallen after he attained the age of 60; or
(c) the amount referred to in paragraph 8(6) modified (in a case where the person was employed in part-time employment immediately before he ceased to be in pensionable employment) such that in place of the definition of E there is substituted the following definition—
“E is the amount of the additional contributions for one year at the rate at which they would have been last payable on the assumption that the person would have been in full-time pensionable employment”.
(5) Where an election is made under sub-paragraph (2)(c), the amount of the lump sum payment is the aggregate of the amounts referred to in sub-paragraphs (3) and (4).
(6) An election under this paragraph shall state whether it is an election under paragraph (a) under paragraph (b) or under paragraph (c) of sub-paragraph (2).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/3001/schedule/4/paragraph/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997/schedule-4/paragraph-9
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