{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015/schedule-12/paragraph-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015/schedule-12/paragraph-10.json",
  "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": "schedule/12/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Recovery of unpaid contributions",
  "text": "(1) Sub-paragraph (2) applies where, despite this Schedule—\n(a) a practitioner, locum practitioner or non-GP provider has failed to pay contributions under regulation 30 or 31;\n(b) a practitioner or non-GP provider has failed to pay contributions under regulation 33; or\n(c) an employing authority has failed to deduct contributions under regulation 30.\n(2) The scheme manager may recover the amount of any unpaid contributions—\n(a) where an employing authority has ceased to exist and paragraph (a) of sub-paragraph (1) applies, by adding the amount of those unpaid contributions to the amount of contributions under regulation 30 or 31 the practitioner or non-GP provider in question is due to pay to the host Board; or\n(b) by deduction from any payment of a benefit to, or in respect of, the member entitled to that benefit: such a deduction may only be made where the Secretary of State has notified the member of an intention to do so.\n(3) If sub-paragraph (2)(a) applies, the practitioner or non-GP provider must record the amount of the unpaid contributions in a certificate referred to in Part 1 of this Schedule.\n(4) This paragraph does not affect any other method of recovery the scheme manager may have.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 12 para. 10(2)(b) substituted (1.4.2019) by The National Health Service Pension Schemes, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/418), regs. 1(2), 93(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/94/schedule/12/paragraph/10",
    "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."
}