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Scottish Statutory Instruments
Public Service Pensions
Made
24th June 2025
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
25th June 2025
Coming into force
8th October 2025
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(1) and (2)(d), 2(1) (as read with paragraph 4(b) of schedule 2) and 3 of the Public Service Pensions Act 2013( 1) (“ the 2013 Act”) and sections 5(1) and (5), 6(1), 7(3), 8(1) and (3), 10(1), 11(1) and (5), and 12(1) and (3) of the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022( 2) (“PSPJOA 2022”) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
In accordance with section 3(5) of the 2013 Act, these Regulations are made with the consent of the Treasury.
In accordance with section 21(1) of the 2013 Act, the Scottish Ministers have consulted the representatives of such persons as appear to the Scottish Ministers likely to be affected by these Regulations.
To the extent required by section 27 of PSPJOA 2022, these Regulations are made in accordance with Treasury directions made under that section.
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Teachers’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2025.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 8 October 2025 and have effect from 1 October 2023( 3).
2.—(1) The Teachers’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Regulations 2023( 4) are amended in accordance with this regulation.
(2) In the schedule, in paragraph 1(1), for “immediate choice election” in each place it occurs substitute “immediate choice decision”.
We consent
NICHOLAS DAKIN
VICKY FOXCROFT
Two of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury
16th June 2025
IVAN McKEE
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
24th June 2025
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations correct minor errors in the Teachers’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (“ the 2023 Regulations”), in particular, in relation to the definitions of “election” and “eligible decision-maker”.
The 2023 Regulations were made under the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 and the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 to remedy the unlawful discrimination on the basis of age that was found to result from the transitional protections afforded to certain cohorts of members of Chapter 1 legacy schemes, as defined in the latter Act.
2013 c. 25(“ the 2013 Act”). Section 3(1) was amended by section 94(2) of the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 (c. 7), and section 3(2)(c) was inserted by section 94(3) of that Act.
Section 3(3)(b) of the 2013 Act provides that scheme regulations may have retrospective effect.
S.S.I. 2023/241, to which there are amendments not relevant to this instrument.