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Paragraph 5 Election not to make pension contributions

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

A firefighter member may at any time, by giving written notice to the member’s employing authority, elect to make no further pension contributions (referred to in this Scheme as a “contributions election”).

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3)—

(a)

a contributions election takes effect on the day on which begins the first pay period falling after the date on which the notice under paragraph (1) is received; and

(b)

the firefighter member’s membership of the Scheme ceases on the day on which the contributions election takes effect.

(3)

A person who makes a contributions election within three months of joining the Scheme is treated as if that person had never been a member of the Scheme.

(4)

A person whose membership of the Scheme ceases as mentioned in paragraph (2)(b) remains entitled to any deferred benefits accrued while that person was a member.