{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-additional-voluntary-contributions-scotland-amendment-regulations-2001/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-additional-voluntary-contributions-scotland-amendment-regulations-2001/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2001/292",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Superannuation (Additional Voluntary Contributions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-additional-voluntary-contributions-scotland-amendment-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of 1995 Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 2(3) there shall be inserted in the appropriate places in alphabetical order the following definitions:–\n“the AVC Scheme” means the occupational pension scheme (within the meaning of section 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993) established under section 9 of the Superannuation Act 1972 and these Regulations;\n“pension credit” means a credit under section 29(1)(b) of the 1999 Act or under corresponding Northern Ireland legislation;\n“pension credit benefits” means in relation to the AVC Scheme the benefits payable under that Scheme which are attributable (directly or indirectly) to a pension credit;\n“pension credit member” means a person who has rights under the AVC Scheme which are attributable (directly or indirectly) to a pension credit either solely or wholly separately from any other rights under the AVC Scheme;\n“pension debit” means a debit under section 29(1)(a) of the 1999 Act or under corresponding Northern Ireland legislation;\n“pension debit member” means a person who has rights under the AVC Scheme and whose shareable rights under that Scheme are subject to a pension debit;\n“pension sharing order” means a pension sharing order or other provision referred to in section 28(1) of the 1999 Act or article 25(1) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999;\n“shareable rights” means any rights a person has under the AVC Scheme except those rights referred to in regulation 2 of the Pension Sharing (Valuation) Regulations 2000.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/3147 (N.I. 11)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/1052. See the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999, section 27(2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/292/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:45:32.914331+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."
}