# The Teachers' Pensions Regulations 2010, Paragraph 4: Pensions for surviving qualifying partners


(1) This paragraph applies where D's surviving adult is a surviving qualifying partner.
(2) D's adult pension qualification service is the total of the following—
(a) any period of pensionable employment after 31st December 2006;
(b) any period beginning after 31st December 2006 in respect of which contributions have been paid under regulation C9 of TPR 1997 or regulation 19;
(c) where a transfer value has been accepted from a comparable British scheme, any period which consists of, or is attributable to, employment which would, immediately before the acceptance of the transfer value, have counted in the scheme for a pension for a person (other than D's surviving spouse or surviving civil partner) with whom at the date of D's death D was living as if they were husband and wife or civil partners;
(d) where D entered pensionable employment after 31st December 2006 and a transfer value (other than one mentioned in paragraph (c)) has been accepted, any period counting as reckonable service by virtue of the acceptance of the transfer value;
(e) any period in respect of which D paid contributions under Schedule 5 (family benefit contributions)....

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/990/schedule/8/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-2010/schedule-8/paragraph-4
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