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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-E23",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2005/393",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Superannuation (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/E23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "E23",
  "heading": "Commutation: exceptional circumstances of ill-health",
  "text": "(1) Where at the time when a teacher becomes entitled to a retirement pension by virtue of regulation E6(1)(c) there are exceptional circumstances of serious ill-health affecting that teacher the Scottish Ministers may discharge their liability in respect of so much of that pension as exceeds the teacher’s guaranteed minimum by payment of a lump sum calculated in accordance with paragraph (2).\n(2) The lump sum is an amount equal to five times the amount by which the annual rate of the retirement pension which would otherwise be payable to the teacher exceeds the amount of his or her guaranteed minimum.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted for reg. E23(2)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2011/42",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers’ Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2006/605",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers' Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/189",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers' Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2011/42",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers’ Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2011"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/393/regulation/E23",
    "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."
}