The Teachers’ (Compensation for Redundancy and Premature Retirement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

Discretion to credit an additional period of service

11.—(1) Subject to the approval of the compensating authority, the deciding authority, ascertained from the first and second columns of the table in Part I of Schedule 1, may, within 6 months after the material date, credit an eligible teacher (including an eligible teacher who has since died) with a period of service not exceeding the shortest of—

(a) the period by which his effective service falls short of 40 years;

(b) the period beginning on the day following the material date and ending with his 65th birthday, less, where paragraph 1 of Part 3 of Schedule 1 applies, any period required by paragraph 2 of that Part to be deducted;

(c) the length of his effective service; and

(d) the period specified in Part 2 of Schedule 1.

(2) An eligible teacher’s effective service comprises—

(a) any period which he is entitled to count as reckonable service; and

(b) if his former employment was not pensionable employment, any period which he would have been entitled so to count if it had been.