{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-scheme-order-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-scheme-order-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-38.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/3/paragraph/38",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Remedial arrangements: additional reckonable service",
  "text": "(1) M may enter into a remedial voluntary contributions arrangement to pay contributions for additional reckonable service in accordance with rule C.1 (member’s option to pay contributions to increase service) of Schedule 1.\n(2) M may only enter into such an arrangement—\n(a) if the Scheme manager is satisfied that it is more likely than not that, but for a relevant breach of a non-discrimination rule, M would, during the period of M’s remediable service, have entered into the same or a similar arrangement,\n(b) before—\n(i) the end of the period of one year beginning with the day on which a remediable service statement is first provided to M, or\n(ii) such later time as the Scheme manager considers reasonable in all the circumstances, and\n(c) after an application made in accordance with paragraph 39 is approved by the Scheme manager.\n(3) Additional reckonable service purchased under rule C.1 (whether or not by virtue of this paragraph) is not remediable service under section 1 of PSPJOA 2022.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 inserted (1.10.2023) by The Armed Forces Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/998), reg. 1(b), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/438/schedule/3/paragraph/38",
    "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."
}