These regulations amend the Teachers (Compensation for Redundancy and Premature Retirement) Regulations 1997.

Provision is made for compensation where a person was employed by an Education Action Forum (regulations 4, 17 and 18). These provisions have effect from 1st September 1998.

Regulations 8 and 15 amend the provisions for reduction of compensation where a person who is entitled to compensation is in certain types of employment. These provisions again have effect from 1st September 1998 and regulations 16 20 and 21 make special provisions for the period from 1st September 1998 to 1st April 1999.

The remaining regulations are consequential on the amendments referred to above, consequential on the repeal of the Teachers' Superannuation (Consolidation) Regulations 1988 and their re-enactment with modifications by the Teachers' Pensions Regulations 1997, or on subsequent amendments to those Regulations, or consequential on changes to the Local Government Pension Scheme.