{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-169",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-169.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/113",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/169",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "169",
  "heading": "Rate of member's contributions",
  "text": "(1) An active member of this scheme must pay contributions to this scheme (“member contributions”) on the member's pensionable earnings for each pay period at a rate determined under this regulation (“member contributions rate”).\n(2) The member contributions rate during a scheme year mentioned in the table is the percentage set out in column 2... of the table which applies to a member's annualised rate of pensionable earnings calculated in relation to each payment of the member's pensionable earnings.\n(3) Column 2 sets out the member contributions rate that applies for payment of ill-health benefits under this scheme (“full member contributions rate.”)\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) The member contributions rate which applies to a member's pensionable earnings is the rate which applies when the payment of pensionable earnings is made.\n(5) For the purpose of paragraph (6), for any pay period in respect of which the member is taken to receive assumed pay, the assumed pay is taken to be paid the payment of the member's pensionable earnings for that pay period would have been made had the circumstances in regulation 31(2) (assumed pay) which apply to the member not applied.\nFor each scheme year falling in the period beginning 1st April 2025 and ending 31st March 2027\nColumn 1\nAnnualised rate of pensionable earnings\nColumn 2\nMember contribution rate\nLess than £60,000\n13.66%\n£60,000 or more\n14.00%",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 169(2) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/38), regs. 2, 35(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 169(3) substituted (1.4.2024) by The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/38), regs. 2, 35(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 169(4) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/38), regs. 2, 35(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 169(5) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/38), regs. 2, 35(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 169(4): reg. 169(6) renumbered as reg. 169(4) (1.4.2024) by The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/38), regs. 2, 35(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 169(5): reg. 169(7) renumbered as reg. 169(5) (1.4.2024) by The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/38), regs. 2, 35(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 169 Table substituted (1.4.2025) by The Police Pensions (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/219), regs. 1(2), 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/113/regulation/169",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:04.118896+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."
}