Teachers' Superannuation Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Exclusion from pensionable employment

B3.—(1) A person is not in pensionable employment unless he is—

(a) 18 years old or older and under the age of compulsory retirement; and

(b) entitled to be paid his salary in full, or on sick leave and entitled to be paid not less than half his salary, or on maternity leave and entitled to be paid any contractual remuneration or statutory maternity pay or in part-time employment and has made an election in accordance with regulation B1(4).

(2) A person is not in pensionable employment while he is in an employment which immediately before 2nd November 1998 by virtue of regulation 5(1) of the 1977 Regulations (employments treated as not being reckonable service by previous provisions) was not pensionable employment.

(3) A person is not in pensionable employment in respect of any employment which commenced on or after 2nd November 1998 while he is entitled to be paid a teacher’s pension, including cases where the annual rate of the pension has been reduced to zero in accordance with regulation E14 (abatement of retirement pension during further employment).