The Teachers' Pensions Regulations 2010

Reckonable serviceE+W+S

41.—(1) Except as otherwise provided in this Part, references in these Regulations to the reckonable service of a person (T) or to the reckonable service which a person (T) can count are references to the total of the following—

(a)any period spent by T in pensionable employment;

(b)any period counting as T's reckonable service by virtue of the acceptance of a transfer value;

(c)any past period in respect of which additional contributions have been paid in accordance with Part 2 of Schedule 4 to TPR 1997;

(d)any past period, calculated in accordance with Schedule 7 of TPR 1997, in respect of which additional contributions have been paid in accordance with Part 1 of Schedule 4 to those regulations or in accordance with Schedule 5 to those Regulations;

(e)where T has paid contributions under regulation C9 of TPR 1997—

(i)if T was in full-time pensionable employment immediately before the start of the period in respect of which the contributions were paid, that period, or

(ii)if T was in part-time pensionable employment immediately before the start of the period in respect of which the contributions were paid, the proportion of that period which would have counted as T's reckonable service in accordance with regulation 43 if T had continued in that employment;

(f)any period in respect of which T has paid contributions under regulation 19 (election to pay contributions by a person serving in a reserve force);

(g)where paragraph (1) of regulation 19 applies to T and, during the period mentioned in paragraph (3) of that regulation, T's service pay, when aggregated with any payments under Part 5 of the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951 M1, is less than the remuneration which T would have received if T had continued in the pensionable employment in which T was employed immediately before being called into service in a reserve force, that period;

(h)any period of specified country service;

(i)any period counting as reckonable service by virtue of an election under regulation 4 of the Teachers' Superannuation (Policy Schemes) Regulations 1979 M2;

(j)any period which does not count as T's reckonable service by virtue of sub-paragraphs (a) to (i) but which immediately before 1st September 2010 counted as T's reckonable service under TPR 1997.

(2) In calculating a period of reckonable service, no account is to be taken of a leap day.

(3) But where the total of a person's reckonable service ends on or after the leap day in a leap year, account is to be taken of that leap-day in calculating reckonable service.

(4) In paragraph (1)(g) “service pay” means pay for performing service in a reserve force and includes marriage, family and similar allowances.