{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-transitional-provisions-savings-and-amendment-regulations-2014/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-transitional-provisions-savings-and-amendment-regulations-2014/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/525",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Transitional Provisions, Savings and Amendment) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-transitional-provisions-savings-and-amendment-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Additional contributions",
  "text": "(1) Notwithstanding the revocations effected by regulation 2 of these Regulations (revocation of regulations) the following regulations continue to have effect—\n(a) regulation 55 of the 1997 Regulations (payments to increase total membership) as it applies to a member who has elected before 1st April 2008 to make additional contributions to increase total membership by an additional period;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) regulation 83 of the 1997 Regulations (discontinuance of additional contributions) in respect of a person to whom sub-paragraph (a) applies; and\n(d) regulation 14 (election in respect of additional pension) and 14A (election to pay additional contributions: survivor benefits) of the Benefits Regulations and regulations 23, 24, 24A and 24B of the Administration Regulations (payment, discontinuance and use of additional contributions) as they apply to a member who has elected before 1st April 2014 to pay additional contributions under those regulations.\n(2) Benefits accrued under the regulations preserved by paragraph (1) must be calculated using the normal retirement age under the 2008 Scheme and treated as benefits under that Scheme.\n(2A) Regulation 17 of the 2013 Regulations (additional voluntary contributions) applies to an AVC arrangement entered into before 1st April 2014 as it applies to an AVC arrangement entered into on or after that date save that—\n(a) the normal pension age in an AVC arrangement entered into before 1st April 2014 is the normal retirement age under the 2008 Scheme; and\n(b) regulation 66(8) of the 1997 Regulations (persons making elections in relation to AVCs prior to 13th November 2001) continues to have effect in relation to persons of the description in that regulation .\n(3) Notwithstanding regulation 17(11) of the 2013 Regulations (additional voluntary contributions), a person to whom regulation 5(1) applies (membership of the 2014 Scheme) who has had no continuous break in active membership of a public service pension scheme of more than five years, may elect not to transfer the realisable value in any deferred AVC account to an arrangement under regulation 17 of the 2013 Regulations.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) For the purposes of paragraph (2A), an AVC arrangement is to be regarded as having been entered into on whichever is the earlier of the date the AVC election form was received by the administering authority or the date the AVC election form was received by the Scheme employer.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 15(1)(b) omitted (14.5.2018) by virtue of The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/493), regs. 1(2), 29(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 15(1)(d) substituted (14.5.2018) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/493), regs. 1(2), 29(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 15(2A) inserted (14.5.2018) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/493), regs. 1(2), 29(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 15(4) omitted (14.5.2018) by virtue of The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/493), regs. 1(2), 29(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 15(5) substituted (14.5.2018) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/493), regs. 1(2), 29(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 15 in force at 1.4.2014, see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/525/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:24:30.617846+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."
}