The Teachers (Compensation for Redundancy and Premature Retirement) Regulations 2015

Discretion to credit an additional period of service

17.—(1) The deciding authority may credit an eligible teacher, including an eligible teacher who has since died, (“a credited teacher”) with a period of service (“the credited period”).

(2) Schedule 1 makes provision for a deduction to be made from the credited period in the circumstances set out in paragraph 1 of that Schedule.

(3) The credited period is not to exceed the shortest of—

(a) the period beginning on the day following the material date and ending on the date the member attains normal pension age less, if paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 applies, any period required by paragraph 2 to be deducted;

(b) the length of effective service;

(c) 10 years.

(4) Any credit by the deciding authority must be within 6 months after the material date.

(5) Effective service is the sum of—

(a) any period or periods which the member is entitled to count as reckonable service under the 2010 Regulations or pensionable service under the 2014 Regulations; and

(b) if the member’s employment was not pensionable service, any period which the member would have been entitled so to count if it had been.