{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1618",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Purchase of current added years",
  "text": "In regulation 27 of the principal Regulations—\n(a) there shall be added the following paragraphs after paragraph (3):—\n“(3A) For the purposes only of this regulation, a teacher’s employment in reckonable service is not discontinued while he is absent from duty during and in consequence of a trade dispute.\n(3B) Paragraph (3A) applies—\n(a) even if the person was not participating in or financing or otherwise directly interested in the trade dispute, and\n(b) even if his employer was not a party to the trade dispute.\n(3C) In this regulation “trade dispute” has the meaning given by section 29 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974().”\n(b) paragraph (6) is hereby revoked.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 52; section 29 was amended by the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Amendment) Act 1976 (c. 7), section 1(d), by the Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45), Schedule 13 and by the Employment Act 1982 (c. 46), section 18."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1618/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:58:27.950103+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."
}