{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-3.C.1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-3.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/3.C.1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3.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 the member’s pensionable earnings in accordance with regulation 3.C.2.\n(2) Contributions under paragraph (1) will be paid at the rate specified in regulation 3.C.2 and in accordance with this Chapter.\n(3) A member who is absent from service in circumstances within regulation 3.A.4(1) to (3A) may make contributions to this Section of the Scheme in respect of the member’s pensionable earnings in accordance with those provisions and regulation 3.C.2.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3.C.1 inserted (1.10.2009) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2446), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3.C.1(1) inserted (23.7.2010) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1634), regs. 1(2), 15 (with reg. 18)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3.C.1(3) 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), 27"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/653/regulation/3.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."
}