A1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Teachers' Superannuation (Scotland) Regulations 1992.
(2) These Regulations shall come into force on 31st March 1992.
A2.—(1) Schedule 1 to these Regulations contains a glossary of expressions and in these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any expression for which there is an entry in the first column of that Schedule has the meaning given against it in the second column or is to be construed in accordance with directions given against it in that column.
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–
(a)any reference to a regulation, Part or Schedule identified by a letter or number or both (an “indicator ”) is to be construed as a reference to the regulation, Part or Schedule, as the case may be, identified by that indicator in these Regulations, and any reference to a numbered paragraph in a regulation of or a Schedule to these Regulations is to be construed as a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation or, as the case may be, that Schedule;
(b)any reference to, or to things done or falling to be done under or for the purposes of, any provision of these Regulations is, if and so far as the nature of the reference permits, to be construed as including, in relation to circumstances or purposes in relation to which the corresponding provision in any Regulations revoked by these Regulations, or in previous provisions, has or had effect, a reference to, or as the case may be to things done or falling to be done under or for the purposes of, that corresponding provision;
(c)any reference to the purchase of added years is, in relation to previous provisions, to be construed as including a reference to the payment of contributions by a person in respect of a period during which that person was not in pensionable employment;
(d)any reference to contributions and benefits payable in respect of a person is to be construed as including a reference to contributions paid by and benefits paid to that person; and
(e)any reference to a transfer value paid or received is to be construed as including a reference to a transfer value which would have been paid or received but for arrangements made for the avoidance of payments between Ministers.
(3) Where these Regulations require anything to be done within a specified period after or from a specified day or event, the period begins immediately after the specified day or, as the case may be, the day on which the specified event occurs.
(4) For the purposes of these Regulations a person’s pensionable employment ends with the last day of the employment or, as the case may be, the last day on which the employment was pensionable.
(5) Expressions used in these Regulations to which meanings are assigned by the Education (Scotland) Act 1980(1) shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the same meanings in these Regulations as in that Act.