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Paragraph 1

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(1)

Subject to paragraph 2, the maximum length of the period in respect of which an election may be made under regulation C3 or C8 is

A-B,

where–

  • A is the length of time specified in the second column of the Table below against the teacher’s adjusted age, and B

  • is the length of any additional period already purchased or in course of being purchased by the teacher.

TABLE

Adjusted ageLength of time
Under 5030 years
50 and under 5123 years
51 and under 5216 years
52 and under 53 9 years
53 and under 54 2 Years
54 and overTwice the difference in days between the adjusted age and 55 years
(2)

A teacher’s adjusted age–

(a)

if he has continued in pensionable employment since the start of his first such employment and has not been credited with reckonable service on the receipt of a transfer value in respect of comparable British service, is the teacher’s age at the start of his first pensionable employment; and

(b)

in any other case, is

C-D,

where–

  • C is the teacher’s age at the start of his most recent pensionable employment, and

  • D is the total of the time the teacher had then spent in pensionable employment and the length of any reckonable service with which he has been credited on the receipt of a transfer value in respect of comparable British service.