{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997/schedule-7/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997/schedule-7/paragraph-5.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/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "If a person had elected under paragraph 4 of Schedule 4 to shorten the contribution period—\n(a) he is in any case entitled to count as reckonable service\nA×HG where\nG is the original contribution period and H is so much of it as had elapsed by the effective date of the election, and\n(b) paragraphs 3 and 4 have effect with the substitution;\n(i) as A, of\nA-A×HG,\n(ii) as B, of the shortened contribution period,\n(iii) as D, of the period from the effective date of the election to his 60th birthday, and\n(c) the definition of C in paragraph 3(3) shall have effect with the substitution for the words “the contribution period” of the words “the shortened contribution period”.",
  "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/5",
    "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."
}