{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-2013/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-2013/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2356",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Contributions during child-related leave",
  "text": "(1) An active member on child-related leave must pay contributions in accordance with regulations 9 or 10 on any pensionable pay received, including statutory pay but that pay does not include any amount that reduces the member's actual pensionable pay on account of possible entitlement to statutory pay.\n(2) If an active member is on ordinary maternity leave, paternity leave , ordinary adoption leave, additional maternity or adoption leave, or shared parental leave and is not entitled to receive pensionable pay (including statutory pay) for any of that period, that member is treated for the purposes of these Regulations as if that member had paid contributions for that unpaid period under paragraph (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 12(2) substituted (1.4.2026) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Member Benefits) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/226), regs. 1(2)(d), 5(1) (with reg. 5(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2356/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:40:57.304771+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."
}