PART 7Benefits for teachers

CHAPTER 1Preliminary

Introduction45

This Part makes provision for the payment of—

a

phased retirement benefits;

b

retirement benefits;

c

total incapacity benefits;

d

additional pensions;

e

admitted service benefits;

f

short-service annuities;

g

short-service serious ill-health grants.

Benefits for teachers (further employment)46

1

For the purpose of calculating benefits under this Part in respect of each period after a person (P) enters further employment, P is to be treated as if P entered pensionable employment for the first time on entering the further employment.

2

Despite paragraph (1), P's total reckonable service attributable to employment before any further employment and to all further employment cannot exceed 45 years.

3

Where P—

a

ceases to be in further employment (“the first further employment”) and satisfies the condition for retirement in relation to the first further employment, but

b

re-enters further employment (“the second further employment”) before making an application under regulation 107 (payment of benefits on application to Secretary of State) in relation to the first further employment

the first further employment and the second further employment are treated as a single period of further employment.

4

This regulation is subject to paragraph 22 (further employment commencing before 1st April 1997) of Schedule 13.