# The Teachers' Superannuation (Consolidation) Regulations 1988, Regulation E7: Limitation of retirement benefits where salary reduced


(1) This regulation applies to a person who has made an election under regulation C1(6) (reduced salary treated as having continued at previous rate) and whose average salary falls to be calculated by reference to the notional rate.
(2) The annual rate of the person’s retirement pension is not to exceed the fraction of the appropriate sum ascertained, by reference to the relevant age, from the Table below.
TABLE
Relevant age
Fraction
Under 50
½
50
⅖
51
3/10
52
⅕
53
1/10
54
1/14
(3) Where the person has been in pensionable employment for less than 20 years, his retirement lump sum is not to exceed 8— 30ths of the appropriate sum multiplied by the total of his reckonable service and the period ascertained, by reference to the length of time he has been in pensionable employment, from the Table below.
TABLE
Years in pensionable employment
Period in years
19
17
18
15
17
13
16
11
15
9
14
7
13
5
12
4
11
3
10
2
9
1
Fewer than 9
0
(4) Where the person has been in pensionable employment for 20 years or more his retirement lump sum is not to exceed the appropriate sum multiplied by 1½.
(5) The appropriate sum is the greater of—
(a) the person’s contributable salary for the best one of his last 5 years in pensionable employment, and
(b) ⅓rd of his aggregate contributable salary for his best 3 consecutive years in pensionable employment within the 10 years ending with its cessation,
and for the purposes of paragraph (2) the relevant age is his age when he first entered pensionable employment, unless he was not continuously in pensionable employment in which case it is the figure obtained by subtracting the number of years in pensionable employment from 60.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1652/regulation/E7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-consolidation-regulations-1988/regulation-E7
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