{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-2001/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-2001/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2001/291",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Deficiency grants",
  "text": "In regulation E20–\n(a) in paragraph (2) for sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted the following:–\n“(a) the teacher became entitled to retirement benefits before 1st October 2001;\n(b) at least 10 years' reckonable service was taken into account in calculating his retiring allowances; and\n(c) the total of the amounts paid in respect of these allowances is less than the pensionable salary,”;\n(b) in paragraph (3) for sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted the following:–\n“(a) the teacher became entitled to retirement benefits before 1st October 2001;\n(b) less than 10 years' reckonable service was taken into account in calculating his retiring allowances; and\n(c) the amount paid in respect of his retirement pension is less than 5 times the annual rate at which it was payable when he died,”;\n(c) there shall be inserted after paragraph (3) the following paragraph:–\n“(3A) If–\n(a) the teacher’s entitlement to retiring allowances takes effect on or after 1st October 2001; and\n(b) the amount paid in respect of his retirement pension is less than 5 times the annual rate at which it was payable when he died,\na grant equal to that deficiency may be paid.”; and\n(d) in paragraph (4A) for “paragraph (2) or (3)”, there shall be substituted “paragraphs (2), (3) or (3A)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/291/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:45:33.658828+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."
}