{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-schemes-amendment-regulations-2024/regulation-21",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2024/281",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-schemes-amendment-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 30",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 30 (members’ contributions: employees) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (3)—\n(a) for “year 2023/24”, substitute “years 2024/25 to 2027/28”;\n(b) for the table, substitute—\n“\nTable Scheme Years 2024/25 to 2027/28\nColumn 1\nColumn 2\nPensionable earnings band\nContribution percentage rate\nUp to £13,259\n5.2%\n£13,260 to £26,831\n6.5%\n£26,832 to £32,691\n8.3%\n£32,692 to £49,078\n9.8%\n£49,079 to £62,924\n10.7%\n£62,925 and above\n12.5%.\n”.\n(3) In paragraph (3A)—\n(a) for “year 2023/24”, substitute “years 2024/25 to 2027/28”;\n(b) for the table, substitute—\n“\nTable Scheme Years 2024/25 to 2027/28\nColumn 1\nColumn 2\nPensionable earnings band\nContribution percentage rate\nUp to £13,259\n5.2%\n£13,260 to £26,831\n6.5%\n£26,832 to £32,691\n8.3%\n£32,692 to £49,078\n9.8%\n£49,079 to £62,924\n10.7%\n£62,925 and above\n12.5%.\n”.\n(4) After paragraph (6), insert—\n“(7) The figures in column 1 of the tables in paragraph (3) and (3A) (except the figures £13,259 and £13,260) are to be increased at the beginning of each scheme year starting with the scheme year 2025/26, and ending with (and including) scheme year 2027/28, if there is a relevant increase in the consumer prices index for that scheme year, by the appropriate percentage for the scheme year rounded up to the nearest £1.\n(8) For the purposes of paragraph (7)—\n(a) there is a relevant increase in the consumer prices index for a scheme year if the consumer prices index for the month of September before that scheme year is higher than that for the previous September;\n(b) the appropriate percentage for the scheme year is the same percentage as any percentage increase in the consumer prices index over the period specified by sub-paragraph (a);\n(c) the “consumer prices index” means the general index of consumer prices (for all items) published by the Statistics Board, a body corporate established by section 1 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007;\n(d) where there is a relevant increase after 1st April 2025, the figures to be increased on the relevant date are the figures applicable to the previous scheme year.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 30 was amended by S.I. 2019/418, 2022/273 (which was amended by 2022/991 and 2023/301) and 2023/576."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2007 c. 18"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/281/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:33:32.460361+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."
}