The Teachers (Compensation for Premature Retirement and Redundancy) (Scotland) Regulations 1996

5.  In this Part–

(a) “first cessation”, in relation to a designated teacher, means–

(i) if a period of extra service has been granted to him in respect of one cessation of employment, that cessation; or

(ii) if a period of extra service has been granted to him in respect of more than one such cessation, the first of those cessations;

(b) “period of extra service”, in relation to a designated teacher, means a period by which his service has been increased or the period of service with which he has been credited, before the material date, for the purpose of calculating–

(i) retirement compensation under regulations made under section 219 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, or a similar instrument, on account of loss of employment; or

(ii) benefit under regulations made under section 220 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973(1), or a similar instrument; or

(iii) compensation under any scheme made under section 1 of the 1972 Act, or a similar instrument, on account of his retirement in the public interest; or

(iv) compensation under these Regulations or any other regulations made under section 24 of the 1972 Act, or a similar instrument, on account of his ceasing to hold an employment with an authority by reason of redundancy or in the interests of the efficient exercise of the functions of that authority,

or, if more than one period of extra service has been credited to him, the aggregate of those periods;

(c) “similar instrument” means any instrument made under any provision to the like effect in any other enactment (whenever enacted);

(d) in a case where period D described in paragraph 3 exceeds the aggregate of periods A, B and C described in that paragraph, no account shall be taken of the excess;

(e) where a person, after his first cessation, has ceased to hold an employment and his–

(i) period of extra service has been reduced by; or

(ii) compensation or benefit, attributable to a period of service, has been reduced on account of,

the period of that employment or a part thereof (in this sub-paragraph referred to as “that period”), period A described in paragraph 3 or, as the case may be, his period of extra service for the purposes of paragraph 4(a) shall be reduced by that period; and

(f) where a designated teacher’s annual compensation has been reduced in accordance with regulation 14 on account of a period of previous new employment or a part thereof (in this sub-paragraph referred to as “that period”), the period of his additional service shall, for the purposes of paragraph 4(b), be reduced by that period; and in this sub-paragraph “annual compensation” has the meaning given in regulation 14(4)(a), and “previous new employment” has the meaning given in regulation 14(4)(c).

(1)

1973 c. 65; section 220 was repealed by the Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 43), Schedule 4, Part I.