{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2008/228",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) (Scotland) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-scotland-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Payment of additional regular contributions (ARCs)",
  "text": "(1) A member who chooses to pay additional contributions under regulation 14 (election in respect of additional pension) of the Benefits Regulations must make the request in writing to the appropriate administering authority.\n(2) The member’s request must be copied to the member’s employing authority and must state the length of the period (“the ARC payment period”) over which the member wishes to pay the additional regular contributions (“ARCs”).\n(3) If–\n(a) the member’s appropriate administering authority pass a resolution requiring the member to satisfy them that the member is in reasonably good health by producing to them a report by a registered medical practitioner of the results of a medical examination undertaken at the member’s own expense; but\n(b) it is not so satisfied,\nit may refuse the request.\n(4) The length of the ARC payment period must be such that it ends before the member’s normal retirement age.\n(5) The member may only pay ARCs if the appropriate administering authority notifies the member in writing that it agrees to the request.\n(6) The scheme actuary shall from time to time determine the amount of ARCs required for any given amount of increased pension and may determine different amounts of ARCs–\n(a) for–\n(i) persons of different ages; or\n(ii) men or women; or\n(b) depending on the length of different payment periods.\n(7) Where the appropriate administering authority agrees to the member’s request–\n(a) it must notify the member and the member’s employing authority of the amount of ARCs payable by the member in accordance with the scheme actuary’s determination, expressed as an amount in pounds sterling; and\n(b) the member must pay those ARCs from the next payment period (as defined in regulation 10(7)) following the administering authority’s notification under paragraph (5).\n(8) The scheme actuary may at any time redetermine any amount determined under paragraph (6); and, if the scheme actuary does so, the member must, from 1st April following the redetermination, pay ARCs in accordance with the redetermination.\n(9) If the member pays (or is treated under regulation 21 (discontinuance of ARCs) as having paid) ARCs for the whole of the ARC payment period, the member must be credited with additional pension of an amount corresponding to them.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 20 in force at 1.4.2009, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "ssi/2008/228",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) (Scotland) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/228/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:32:50.357537+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."
}