The Teachers' Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2000

Additional contributions to purchase past added years

4.  In regulation C3–

(a) for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:–

“(2) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (6) to (12), a teacher to whom this regulation applies may elect to pay additional contributions in accordance with–

(a) Part I of Schedule 4 (“Method A”); or

(b) Part II of Schedule 4 (“Method B”),

in order to become entitled to count an additional period (“the past period”) as reckonable service.”;

(b) in paragraph (6), sub-paragraph (f) shall be omitted;

(c) for paragraph (8) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:–

“(8) Where payment is to be made by Method A, the period during which additional contributions are to be paid (“the contribution period”) must satisfy paragraph 2 of Schedule 4.”;

(d) in paragraphs (11) and (12), the words “or C” shall be omitted;

(e) paragraph (13A)(1) shall be omitted; and

(f) after paragraph (15) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:–

“(16) The provisions of Part III of Schedule 4 to these Regulations (“Method C”) shall cease to have effect on or after 20th November 2000 except that they shall continue to apply in respect of any election made by a teacher before that date to pay additional contributions in accordance with those provisions.”.

(1)

Paragraph (13A) was inserted by S.I. 1993/2513.