The Teachers’ Pensions Regulations 2010

Pensions for surviving nominated partners

4.—(1) This paragraph applies where D’s surviving adult is a surviving nominated partner.

(2) D’s family benefit qualification service is the total of the following—

(a) any period of pensionable employment after 31st December 2006;

(b) any period beginning after 31st December 2006 in respect of which contributions have been paid under regulation C9 of TPR 1997 or regulation 19;

(c) where a transfer value has been accepted from a comparable British scheme, any period which consists of, or is attributable to, employment which would, immediately before the acceptance of the transfer value, have counted in the scheme for a pension for a person (other than D’s surviving spouse or surviving civil partner) with whom at the date of D’s death D was living as if they were husband and wife or civil partners;

(d) where D entered pensionable employment after 31st December 2006 and a transfer value (other than one mentioned in paragraph (c)) has been accepted, any period counting as reckonable service by virtue of the acceptance of the transfer value;

(e) any period in respect of which D paid contributions under Schedule 5 (family benefit contributions) provided that at the time when the relevant election was made D had nominated a surviving nominated partner.