{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-transitional-provisions-regulations-2008/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-transitional-provisions-regulations-2008/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/238",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-transitional-provisions-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Members’ contributions: lower rate rights",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (4), the contribution rates set out in the table in regulation 3(2) of the Benefits Regulations (“the 2007 table”) do not apply to a person to whom regulation 12(3) of the 1997 Regulations, as continued in effect by regulation 3(2), applies.\n(2) Instead, the contribution rate to be applied to such a member is calculated in accordance with the following table—\nYear commencing\nContribution rate\n1st April 2008\n5.25%\n1st April 2009\n5.5%\n1st April 2010\n6.5%\n(3) But if the application of the table set out in paragraph (2) would result in a member’s contribution rate being greater that if the table applied, his contribution is paid at the lower rate.\n(4) After 31st March 2011, such a member makes contributions in accordance with the 2007 table.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in force at 1.4.2008, see reg. 1(3)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/238",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/1083",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/238/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:37:03.919629+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."
}