{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-2.C.1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-2.C.1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/653",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2.C.1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2.C.1",
  "heading": "Contributions by members",
  "text": "(1) Each active member must make contributions to this Section of the Scheme (“member contributions”) in respect of—\n(a) the member’s pensionable pay in accordance with regulation 2.C.2 where the member is not a non-GP provider;\n(b) the member’s pensionable earnings in accordance with regulation 2.C.4 where the member is a non-GP provider.\n(2) Member contributions must be made—\n(a) until the member completes 45 years’ pensionable service, or\n(b) where the notice required by regulation 2.A.2(3) has been properly received, until the member ceases officer service.\n(3) In the case of a member who is not a non-GP provider, the member’s employing authority must deduct member contributions from the member’s pensionable pay and pay them to the Secretary of State not later than the 19th day of the month following the month in which the pay was paid to the member.\n(4) In the case of a member who is a non-GP provider, the host ... Board must pay to the Secretary of State contributions under this regulation paid to it by the non-GP provider or paid to it by another employing authority not later than the 19th day of the month following the month in which the earnings were paid to the non-GP provider.\n(5) Paragraph (6) applies where, despite the provisions of this regulation—\n(a) a member who—\n(i) is not a non-GP provider, has failed to pay member contributions; or\n(ii) is a non-GP provider, has failed to pay such contributions; or\n(b) an employing authority has failed to deduct such contributions in respect of a member referred to in paragraph (a).\n(6) The Secretary of State may recover any sum that remains due in respect of contributions referred to in paragraph (5)—\n(a) in any case where an employing authority has ceased to exist and the member is a non-GP provider member referred to in paragraph (5)(a)(ii), by adding those contributions to the amount of contributions that the non-GP provider is due to pay to the host Board;\n(b) by deduction from any benefit payable to, or in respect of, the member where the Secretary of State has notified the member of an intention to do so.\n(6A) Where paragraph (6)(a) applies, the non-GP provider must record the amount of unpaid contributions in a certificate referred to in regulation 2.J.14.\n(7) Paragraph (6) is without prejudice to any other method of recovery the Secretary of State may have.\n(8) A member who is absent from service in circumstances within regulation 2.A.4(1) to (3A), may make contributions to this Section of the Scheme in respect of the member’s pensionable pay or, as the case may be, pensionable earnings in accordance with that regulation and whichever of regulations 2.C.2 or 2.C.4 applies to that member.\n(9) If, apart from this paragraph, the pay or, as the case may be, earnings for a scheme year in respect of a member’s service would not be a whole number of pounds, that pay or, as the case may be, those earnings must be rounded down to the nearest whole pound.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2.C.1 substituted (23.7.2010) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1634), regs. 1(2), 10 (with reg. 18)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2.C.1(4) omitted (1.4.2013) by virtue of The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/413), regs. 1(2), 31(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 2.C.1(5)-(6A) substituted for reg. 2.C.1(5)(6) (1.4.2013) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/245), regs. 1(6), 25 (with reg. 105)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 2.C.1(6)(b) substituted (1.4.2014) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/570), regs. 1(2), 24 (with reg. 49)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2.C.1(8) substituted (28.11.2011) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2586), regs. 1(2), 16"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/653/regulation/2.C.1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:34:22.381913+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."
}