{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1997/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1997/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1612",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Members’ contributions",
  "text": "(1) Each member shall make contributions to the Scheme at the standard contribution rate on his pay in each employment in which he is an active member (but see regulation 15).\n(2) The standard contribution rate for a member is six per cent., unless he is a member with lower rate rights.\n(3) The standard contribution rate for a member with lower rate rights is five per cent.\n(4) A person who is an active member in more than one employment must make contributions for each of those employments.\n(5) His appropriate administering authority may decide the intervals at which the contributions are made.\n(6) For this regulation any reduction in pay by reason of the actual or assumed enjoyment by the member of any statutory entitlement during any period away from work shall be disregarded.\n(7) Regulations 16 to 18 affect this regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/1488",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/1488",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1612/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:06:30.691853+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."
}