{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-E22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-E22.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/E22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "E22",
  "heading": "Forfeiture of benefits",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a teacher is convicted of–\n(a) an offence of treason; or\n(b) one or more offences under the Official Secrets Acts 1911 to 1989 for which he or she has been sentenced on the same occasion to a term of imprisonment of, or to two or more consecutive terms amounting in aggregate to, at least 10 years; or\n(c) an offence in connection with pensionable employment or excluded employment which is certified by the Scottish Ministers either to have been gravely injurious to the State or to be liable to lead to serious loss of confidence in the public service,\nand any benefit under regulations E1 to E21 becomes payable to him or her after the offence was committed.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the Scottish Ministers may–\n(a) defer or as the case may be suspend payment of the benefit for so long; or\n(b) reduce its amount or rate by so much,\nas they may determine.\n(3) If–\n(a) the teacher has a guaranteed minimum in relation to benefits under these Regulations; and\n(b) the case does not fall within paragraph (1)(a) or (b),\na determination under paragraph (2) may not deprive that teacher of his or her guaranteed minimum pension after he or she attains state pensionable age.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1911 c. 28; 1920 c. 75; 1939 c. 121; 1989 c. 6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2023/1267",
      "affecting_title": "The National Security Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments of Subordinate Legislation) Regulations 2023"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/393/regulation/E22",
    "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."
}