Paragraph 3 Change to employment or rate of pensionable earnings or allowances

If, at any time during the current scheme year, a member starts a new employment, the member must pay contributions in respect of the employment at the rate specified in column 2 of the table in paragraph F1(3A) of regulation 30 in respect of the amount of pensionable earnings referred to in column 1 of that table which corresponds to the member's pensionable earnings determined in accordance with sub-paragraph (5).

If at any time during the current scheme year, a change is made to a member's annual rate of pensionable earnings or pensionable allowances in respect of an existing employment, the member must pay contributions—

Sub-paragraph (2) does not apply to a change made to a member's annual rate of pensionable allowances in respect of an existing employment that is determined by the member's employer to have been made in respect of—

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Where sub-paragraph (1) or (2) applies the scheme manager must determine the member’s pensionable earnings by applying the formula—

where—

• EPE is the pensionable earnings that the member’s employing authority estimates will be payable to the member from the date the employment mentioned in that sub-paragraph starts to the end of the current scheme year F5(including amounts equal to reduced pensionable earnings that the member is treated as having received during an absence from work (see regulation 28)); and

• NDPE is the number of days of pensionable employment from the date the employment starts to the end of that year.

Sub-paragraph (7) applies if—

The variable amount mentioned in sub-paragraph F6(6) is to be taken as such amount as the employing authority considers appropriate for the current scheme year.