{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-2010/schedule-10/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-2010/schedule-10/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/990",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Pensions Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-2010",
  "path": "schedule/10/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Specified country service",
  "text": "(1) If a person has specified country service, these Regulations have effect subject to the modifications made by this paragraph.\n(2) The provisions mentioned in sub-paragraph (4) have effect as if references to the age of 60 and references to a normal pension age of 60 were replaced by references to the age obtained by deducting from 60 years a period of 3 months in respect of each complete year of up to 20 years of the person's specified country service and by references to a normal pension age of that age respectively.\n(3) Sub-paragraph (2) does not apply in relation to the calculation of benefits in respect of further employment.\n(4) The provisions are—\n(a) regulation 48 (“person with mixed service”: meaning and normal pension age);\n(b) regulation 49 (“pre-2007 entrant”: meaning and normal pension age);\n(c) regulation 50 (meaning of “NPA 60 reckonable service” and “NPA 65 reckonable service”);\n(d) regulation 68 (cessation and reinstatement of ill-health pension (application received before 6th January 2007));\n(e) regulation 69 (cessation of ill-health pension (application received on or after 6th January 2007));\n(f) regulation 78 (short-service annuity);\n(g) regulation 79 (short-service annuity: unauthorised payments)\n(5) For the purpose of calculating the person's reckonable service except for the purpose of—\n(a) benefits in respect of any period of further employment, and\n(b) benefits under Part 9 (family benefits) specified country service counts as 1.5 times its actual length.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/990/schedule/10/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}