# The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1995, Regulation C9: Payments to increase membership: calculation of all benefits


(1) Subject to the following provisions, if a member elects at any time to make additional periodical payments under this regulation, then, in relation to the relevant employment, he may count as a period of membership (but not for the purposes of determining entitlement to any benefit)—
(a) if he completes the additional payments, the period in respect of which payment was made; and
(b) if he begins making the additional payments but does not complete payment, an additional period calculated in accordance with regulation C19.
(2) The additional payments—
(a) are payable from the member’s next birthday after the date of the election at such intervals as the appropriate administering authority may determine; and
(b) cease to be payable on the day before—
(i) his NRD; or
(ii) if his NRD is not his birthday, the last birthday before his NRD.
(3) An employee may not make an election under paragraph (1) if—
(a) the appropriate administering authority have resolved that he should undergo a medical examination at this own expense and he has not done so to their satisfaction; or
(b) he was precluded by regulation D13(5)(b) of the 1974 regulations from making an election under that regulation.
(4) An election under this regulation shall be made by notice in writing given to the appropriate administering authority.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1019/regulation/C9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-C9
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