PART 1 E+W+SPreliminary
Citation and commencementE+W+S
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Teachers' Pensions Regulations 2010 and come into force on 1st September 2010.
InterpretationE+W+S
2.—(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 casesE+W+S
3.—(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”E+W+S
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.