{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-2010/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-2010/regulation-31.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/990",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Pensions Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Application of Part",
  "text": "(1) This Part does not affect a person's entitlement to a cash equivalent conferred by or under Chapter 4 of Part 4 of PSA 1993.\n(2) A transfer value in respect of any pension credit rights or pension credit benefits is not to be paid or accepted under this Part.\n(3) A transfer value in respect of a person (P) is not to be accepted under this Part if the previous scheme was a money purchase arrangement as defined in section 152 of FA 2004—\n(a) to which P's employer was not a contributor, and\n(b) which provided benefits additional to those provided by a scheme to which P was a contributor.\n(4) Under this Part a transfer value may not be paid in respect of P's phased retirement benefits in payment, only in respect of P's other benefits.\n(5) A transfer value may be paid or accepted under this Part, in respect of P, to the extent that paragraphs (6) or (7) apply to the transfer value.\n(6) A transfer value referable to P's NPA 65 reckonable service may be paid or accepted if—\n(a) P is a person with mixed service, and\n(b) P's NPA 60 reckonable service has come into payment.\n(7) A transfer value referable to P's further employment may be paid if—\n(a) retirement benefits, a short-service serious ill-health grant or a short-service annuity have not come into payment in respect of that further employment, and\n(b) retirement benefits, a short-service serious ill-health grant or a short-service annuity have come into payment in respect of the previous employment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 4 substituted (1.4.2015) by The Teachers' Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2651), regs. 1, 10"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/990/regulation/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:45:27.973590+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."
}