The Teachers' Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1989

Long-term pensions

18.  In regulation 64 of the principal Regulations—

(a) in paragraph (1), there shall be inserted at the beginning the words “Subject to paragraph (1B),” and for “5” there shall be substituted “2”;

(b) in paragraph (1A), for the words “46(1)(e)”, there shall be substituted the words “46(1)(d)”;

(c) there shall be inserted after paragraph (1A) the following:—

“(1B) In respect of a teacher such as is mentioned in paragraph (1), who dies while employed in reckonable service, or to whom retiring allowances were paid on grounds of incapacity by virtue of regulation 47, and whose service counting for benefit is less than 5 years, in calculating any long-term pension Note 2 to Table 2 shall be disregarded.”;

(d) in paragraph (4), for the words “widow or”, there shall be substituted “widow, widower,”; and

(e) for paragraph (8) there shall be substituted the following:—

• “Notwithstanding the provisions of this regulation and Schedules 8 and 9, in the case of a widow of a teacher who was employed in reckonable service after 5th April 1978, or in the case of a widower of a teacher last employed after 5th April 1988, where the marriage took place after the day on which the teacher was last employed in reckonable service, the reckonable service counting for benefit shall in respect of a widow or widower be the reckonable service after 5th April 1978 and 5th April 1988 respectively.”.