PART 1Preliminary

Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the Teachers' Pensions Regulations 2010 and come into force on 1st September 2010.

Interpretation2

1

Schedule 1 contains a glossary of expressions.

2

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, an expression listed in the left-hand column of Schedule 1 has the meaning in, or the meaning contained in the provision referred to in, the corresponding entry in the right-hand column.

Meaning of “employer” in certain cases3

1

Where a teacher is employed by the governing body of a school maintained by a local authority, that authority is, for the purposes of these Regulations, treated as the employer of the teacher.

2

But for the purpose of paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 4 (contributions for additional pensions) such a governing body is also treated as the employer of such a teacher.

Meaning of “further employment”4

1

A person (P) who re-enters pensionable employment after a retirement pension falling within paragraph (2) or a short-service serious ill-health grant becomes payable enters “further employment” for the purpose of these Regulations.

2

A retirement pension falls within this paragraph if—

a

on the pension becoming payable, P had no reckonable service other than reckonable service previously used to calculate a benefit (including the pension), and

b

the pension is not an ill-health pension.

3

Paragraph (2)(b) does not apply if at the time when P enters the employment mentioned in paragraph (1)—

a

where P is a pre-2007 entrant, P is at least 60, or

b

where P is a person with mixed service or a 2007 or later entrant, P is at least 65.