{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-E20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-E20.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2005/393",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Superannuation (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/E20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "E20",
  "heading": "Retirement benefits on cessation of further employment which began on or after 1st October 2001",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies–\n(a) to a teacher who has been in further employment which began on or after 1st October 2001 for the appropriate qualifying period under regulation E5(3); and\n(b) where such employment has ceased.\n(2) A teacher to whom this regulation applies becomes entitled to payment of retirement benefits in accordance with paragraphs (3) to (7) by reference to his or her reckonable service in the further employment.\n(3) Where regulation E6(1)(a) or (b) apply, subject to paragraph (7), a teacher’s entitlement to retirement benefits takes effect–\n(a) where, at the time of the application for benefits under regulation E36 the teacher was in pensionable or excluded employment, as from the day after the end of the employment; and\n(b) in any other case on a date determined by the teacher making the application for benefits under regulation E36, being a date no earlier than 6 weeks after the date of such application.\n(4) Where regulation E6(1)(c) applies, subject to paragraph (7), a teacher’s entitlement to retirement benefits takes effect in accordance with regulation E6(2)(b).\n(5) Where regulation E6(1)(d) applies, subject to paragraph (7), a teacher’s entitlement to retirement benefits takes effect in accordance with regulation E6(2)(c).\n(6) Where regulation E6(1)(e) applies, subject to paragraph (7), a teacher’s entitlement to retirement benefits takes effect in accordance with regulation E6(2)(d).\n(7) Where a teacher ceases to be in further employment which is pensionable by virtue of regulation B9 and he or she subsequently enters further employment without making an application for benefits under regulation E36 in respect of the earlier further employment, he or she cannot make such an application during any period of subsequent further employment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/189",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers' Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/393/regulation/E20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:24:46.895061+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."
}