{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/33",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-regulations-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Discontinuance of ARCs",
  "text": "(1) A member—\n(a) may stop paying his ARCs before the end of the ARC payment period if he notifies the Committee and his employing authority in writing that he wishes to do so; and\n(b) must stop doing so if he ceases to be an active member.\n(2) If a member stops paying his ARCs before the end of the ARC payment period—\n(a) on leaving his employment on the grounds of ill-health and the Committee makes a determination in respect of him under regulation 20(2) or (3) (early leavers: ill-health) of the Benefits Regulations; or\n(b) on his death,\nhe is treated as having paid his ARCs up to the end of that period.\n(3) If a member stops paying his ARCs and paragraph (2) does not apply to him, he must be credited with additional pension of an amount determined by the Government Actuary, having regard to the ARCs he paid before he stopped.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (except reg. 4 for specified purposes, reg. 6 for specified purposes and reg. 11) (1.4.2015) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/189), regs. 1(1), 2(1), Sch. 2 (with regs. 3, 13, 14(1)(d), Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 20(2)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending Rule) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/410), regs. 1(1), 31"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 20 in operation at 1.4.2009, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/33/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:33:24.030530+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."
}