{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997/schedule-7/paragraph-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997/schedule-7/paragraph-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/3001",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Pensions Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where a person is continuing to pay contributions in accordance with paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 and—\n(a) ceases to be in full-time employment before the end of the period for which the contributions were payable (“the contribution period”); and\n(b) does not again enter such employment within one month and before becoming entitled to payment of retirement benefits, and no lump sum payment is made under paragraph 9(3) of Schedule 5.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), the person is entitled to count as reckonable service—\nA×CB where—\nA is the past period,\nB is the contribution period, and\nC is so much of B as had elapsed when the pensionable employment ended.\n(3) This sub-paragraph applies where—\n(a) when the pensionable employment ended the person was incapacitated and had not attained the age of 60, or\n(b) he died while in pensionable employment, or\n(c) he dies within 3 months after the end of the pensionable employment without having made an election under paragraph 9(3) of Schedule 5.\n(4) Where sub-paragraph (3) applies—\n(a) if, when the pensionable employment ended, at least one year of the contribution period had elapsed he is entitled to count the whole of the past period as reckonable service, and\n(b) in any other case, he is not entitled to count any period as reckonable service and the additional contributions paid are to be refunded.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/3001/schedule/7/paragraph/11",
    "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."
}