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The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) (No. 2) Amendment Regulations 2017

Type Scottish-Statutory-Instrument

Publication 2017-12-18

State In force

Jurisdiction Scotland

Department Queen's Printer for Scotland

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Made: 18th December 2017

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 20th December 2017

Coming into force: 1st March 2018

In accordance with section 3(5) of that Act, these Regulations are made with the consent of the Treasury.

Citation, commencement and effect

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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) (No. 2) Amendment Regulations 2017 and come into force on 1st March 2018.

(2) Regulation 2 has effect from 1st April 2015.

Amendment of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2014

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(1) The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2014[^f00002] are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) In regulations 135, 136(1), 137(1) and 138(1) for “is payable” substitute “may be payable”.

Signed

DEREK MACKAY — A member of the Scottish Government — 12th December 2017

We consent

ANDREW GRIFFITHS — HEATHER WHEELER — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 18th December 2017

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations clarify that the death grant payable in terms of regulations 135, 136(1), 137(1) and 138(1) of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 is discretionary. The amendment effecting that change is made retrospective from 1st April 2015 which was the date regulations 135, 136(1), 137(1) and 138(1) came into force. Section 3(3)(b) of the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 allows these Regulations to make retrospective provision.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2013 c.25.

[^f00002]: S.S.I. 2014/292.

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