{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015/regulation-68",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/94",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/68",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Effect of being absent or leaving and rejoining scheme during contributions payment period",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies if, during the contributions payment period, a member (M) who has made an election under regulation 55—\n(a) is absent from work because of illness or injury;\n(b) is on maternity leave;\n(c) is on adoption leave;\n(d) is on paternity leave;\n(e) is on parental leave shared parental leave or parental bereavement leave; ...\n(ea) is on carer’s leave; ...\n(eb) is on neonatal care leave; or\n(f) is within regulation 21(4) or (6).\n(2) If paragraph (1) applies—\n(a) the contributions payable under regulation 64 continue to be payable unless M ceases paying basic contributions;\n(b) M may resume paying contributions under regulation 64 only if—\n(i) M ceases to pay basic contributions; but\n(ii) resumes paying basic contributions before the end of the period of 12 months beginning with the day on which M first ceased to pay basic contributions.\n(3) This paragraph applies if—\n(a) a member (M) has made an election under regulation 55;\n(b) M ceases to be an active member during the contributions payment period; and\n(c) before the end of the period of 12 months beginning with the day on which M ceased to be an active member, M becomes an active member again.\n(4) If paragraph (3) applies, M may continue to make contributions in accordance with the election unless a repayment of contributions has been made to M under regulation 40.\n(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4), it is immaterial whether M has paid any repaid contributions back to the scheme manager.\n(6) In this regulation, “basic contributions” means contributions payable under regulation 30 or 31.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 68(1)(e) substituted (6.4.2020) by The Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/354), regs. 1, 37(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 68(1) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/281), regs. 1(2), 24(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 68(1)(ea) inserted (1.4.2024) by The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/281), regs. 1(2), 24(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 68(1) omitted (6.4.2025) by virtue of The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/316), regs. 1(3), 28(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 68(1)(eb) inserted (6.4.2025) by The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/316), regs. 1(3), 28(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/94/regulation/68",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:49:26.680467+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."
}