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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-21/enacted",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-21/enacted.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/enacted",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Discontinuance of ARCs",
  "text": "(1) A member–\n(a) may stop paying ARCs before the end of the ARC payment period if the member notifies the appropriate administering authority and the employing authority in writing that the member wishes to do so; and\n(b) must stop doing so on ceasing to be an active member.\n(2) If a member stops paying ARCs before the end of the ARC payment period–\n(a) on leaving employment on the grounds of ill health and the member’s employing authority makes a determination in respect of the member under regulation 20(2) or (3) (early leavers: ill health) of the Benefits Regulations; or\n(b) on the member’s death,\nthe member is to be treated as having paid ARCs up to the end of that period.\n(3) If a member stops paying ARCs and paragraph (2) does not apply to the member, the member must be credited with additional pension of an amount determined by the scheme actuary, having regard to the ARCs paid by the member before the member stopped.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "enacted",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/228/regulation/21",
    "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."
}