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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/310/regulation/34</dc:identifier><dc:title>The Teachers' Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014</dc:title><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:subject scheme="SIheading">PUBLIC SERVICE PENSIONS;EDUCATION</dc:subject><dc:modified>2025-05-10</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2025-04-01</dct:valid>
					<dc:description>These Regulations establish a career average re-valued earnings scheme for the payment of pensions and other benefits to and in respect of teachers in Northern Ireland.</dc:description>
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          <Strong>PART 3</Strong>
        </Number><Title>Scheme membership</Title><Chapter DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/310/part/3/chapter/4" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2014/310/part/3/chapter/4" NumberOfProvisions="7" id="part-3-chapter-4" RestrictStartDate="2015-04-05"><Number>CHAPTER 4</Number><Title>Pensionable earnings</Title><P1group RestrictStartDate="2015-04-05"><Title>Pensionable earnings for teachers in grant aided schools and peripatetic teachers</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/310/regulation/34" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2014/310/regulation/34" id="regulation-34"><Pnumber>34</Pnumber><P1para><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/310/regulation/34/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2014/310/regulation/34/1" id="regulation-34-1"><Pnumber>1</Pnumber><P2para><Text>This regulation applies to an active member (P) who is a teacher mentioned in paragraph 2 or 4 of Schedule 1.</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/310/regulation/34/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2014/310/regulation/34/2" id="regulation-34-2"><Pnumber>2</Pnumber><P2para><Text>P's pensionable earnings for any pay period are the sum of the following amounts paid in that pay period to P by P's employer in respect of P's pensionable service—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/310/regulation/34/2/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2014/310/regulation/34/2/a" id="regulation-34-2-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>all salary and allowances paid for the performance of P's contractual duties in accordance with a determination;</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/310/regulation/34/2/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2014/310/regulation/34/2/b" id="regulation-34-2-b"><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the amount of any payment in respect of overtime;</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/310/regulation/34/2/c" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2014/310/regulation/34/2/c" id="regulation-34-2-c"><Pnumber>c</Pnumber><P3para><Text>any salary or statutory pay paid while P is on sick leave, maternity leave, paternity leave, <CommentaryRef Ref="key-448764dbf4a6f04fc3886c1df515fb07"/>... parental leave  <Addition ChangeId="M_F_dd34c5f7-f440-4349-80aa-fb2ffccce477-1635253006343" CommentaryRef="M_F_dd34c5f7-f440-4349-80aa-fb2ffccce477">shared parental leave</Addition> or adoption leave;</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/310/regulation/34/2/d" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2014/310/regulation/34/2/d" id="regulation-34-2-d"><Pnumber>d</Pnumber><P3para><Text>an amount equal to any part of P's salary which P has given up the right to receive under a salary sacrifice arrangement.</Text></P3para></P3></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/310/regulation/34/3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2014/310/regulation/34/3" id="regulation-34-3"><Pnumber>3</Pnumber><P2para><Text>P's pensionable earnings do not include any amounts mentioned in regulation 36.</Text></P2para></P2></P1para></P1></P1group></Chapter></Part></Body></Secondary><Commentaries><Commentary id="M_F_dd34c5f7-f440-4349-80aa-fb2ffccce477" Type="F"><Para><Text>Words in reg. 34(2)(c) inserted (15.3.2015) by virtue of <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/146" id="d14e5" Class="NorthernIrelandStatutoryRule" Year="2015" Number="146" Title="The Shared Parental Leave and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015">The Shared Parental Leave and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/146)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="cc116655800011" CitationRef="d14e5" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/146/article/1/2" SectionRef="article-1-2">arts. 1(2)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="cc128265904453" CitationRef="d14e5" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/146/article/23/5/b" Operative="true" SectionRef="article-23-5-b">23(5)(b)</CitationSubRef></Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="key-448764dbf4a6f04fc3886c1df515fb07" Type="F"><Para><Text>Words in <CitationSubRef id="cd2rf65x4-00006" SectionRef="regulation-34-2-c" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2014/310/regulation/34/2/c">reg. 34(2)(c)</CitationSubRef> omitted (5.4.2015) by virtue of <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/146" id="cd2rf65x4-00007" Class="NorthernIrelandStatutoryRule" Year="2015" Number="146" Title="The Shared Parental Leave and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015">The Shared Parental Leave and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/146)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef CitationRef="cd2rf65x4-00007" id="cd2rf65x4-00008" SectionRef="article-1-3" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/146/article/1/3">arts. 1(3)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef CitationRef="cd2rf65x4-00007" id="cd2rf65x4-00009" SectionRef="article-23-5-a" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/146/article/23/5/a" Operative="true">23(5)(a)</CitationSubRef> (with <CitationSubRef CitationRef="cd2rf65x4-00007" id="cd2rf65x4-00010" SectionRef="article-25" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/146/article/25">art. 25</CitationSubRef>)</Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>