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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-2015/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2015/98",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers’ Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-2015",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which come into force on 1st April 2015, amend the Teachers’ Superannuation (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (“the 2005 Regulations”).\nRegulation 3 makes provision (retrospective to 16th December 2014) in consequence of commencement of the legislation allowing same sex marriage in Scotland.\nRegulation 4 sets out member contribution rates and provides for relevant salary bands to be uprated in line with changes in the consumer prices index.\nRegulations 5 to 8, 11 to 13 and 17 are concerned with transfers. The whole of Part G and Schedule 12 in the 2005 Regulations are replaced so as to provide for changes in club rules and the ending of comparable United Kingdom service transfers.\nRegulation 9 amends the timescale for applications for payment of retirement benefits where a teacher is incapacitated.\nRegulation 10 clarifies the operation of abatement.\nRegulation 14 makes provision as to employers’ contributions.\nRegulations 15 and 16 correct minor errors and insert new definitions in Schedule 1 to the 2005 Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/98/note",
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  },
  "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."
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