The Teachers’ Pension Scheme Regulations 2014

The new employment condition

91.—(1) A person (P) meets the new employment condition if—

(a) P leaves all eligible employment;

(b) within 6 months after leaving all eligible employment, P enters a new employment; and

(c) on the day after the entitlement day referred to in regulation 92 the reduced annual rate of P’s pensionable earnings in the new employment does not exceed 80% of the average annual rate of P’s pensionable earnings for the last 6 months of the previous employment.

(2) In this regulation—

“a new employment” means—

(a)

one or more new eligible employments;

(b)

one or more employments with an employer mentioned in any paragraph in Parts 2 to 4 of Schedule 1, each of which is not an eligible employment, where—

(i)

P’s normal duties in the employment include providing education or services ancillary to education (other than administrative services); and

(ii)

if the employer is a function provider, P’s duties relate to functions or services in respect of which the function provider is accepted under paragraph 3 of Schedule 1; or

(c)

one or more new eligible employments and one or more employments mentioned in paragraph (b); and

“previous employment” means one or more previous eligible employments.