{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-scheme-order-2005/schedule-2/paragraph-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-scheme-order-2005/schedule-2/paragraph-46.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/438",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces Pension Scheme Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-scheme-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/46",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Option to buy added years under the AFPS 2005 continues to have effect",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies if a transition member with continuity of service—\n(a) has exercised an option under rule C.1(1) (member’s option to pay contributions to increase service) before the member’s transition date; and\n(b) on the member’s transition date, the contractual option period is extant.\n(2) Periodical payments paid by the member in accordance with Part C of the AFPS 2005 on or after the member’s transition date and before the end of the contractual option period are valid for the purposes of Part C, and the contractual option period continues as if the member continued in pensionable service under the AFPS 2005.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 inserted (1.4.2015) by The Armed Forces (Transitional Provisions) Pensions Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/568), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 46(1) substituted (1.4.2022) by The Armed Forces Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/323), reg. 1(2), 3(2)(e)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 46(2) substituted (1.4.2022) by The Armed Forces Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/323), reg. 1(2), 3(2)(e)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/438/schedule/2/paragraph/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:08:49.366834+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}