{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2011-transfer-of-accrued-pension-rights-order-2012/schedule-1/part-II/rule-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2011-transfer-of-accrued-pension-rights-order-2012/schedule-1/part-II/rule-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/687",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Services Act 2011 (Transfer of Accrued Pension Rights) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2011-transfer-of-accrued-pension-rights-order-2012",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/II/rule/12",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Members’ choice of methods of payment of contributions",
  "text": "A Member was required to pay contributions due to the RMPP for the widow’s pension that Member had chosen in respect of that Member’s RMPP Reckonable Service before that Member joined the contributory part of the RMPP (and contributions which were payable to the RMPP under General Rule 21(2)(a) (Contributions for widow’s pensions) of the RMPP Rules) and must have paid those contributions by any one of the three methods (designated Plan M, Plan U or Plan L) set out in General Rules 23 (Plan M), 24 (Plan U) and 25 (Plan L) of the RMPP Rules. If no choice had been made by such date as shall be notified to the Member by an Employer under the RMPP Rules, the Member would have been deemed to have chosen Plan L. Once a Member had started to make payments by the method of that Member’s choice, such payments continued under the RMPP until the earlier of the end of the Cut-Off Date (subject to the Member’s ability to meet the obligation to pay contributions under Plan L under the RMSPS by using the methods set out in General Rule 25 (Plan L) of the RMPP Rules) or the Member’s outstanding liability to the Fund was discharged.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. II rule 12 not in force at made date, see art. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. II rule 12 in force at 1.4.2012 by S.I. 2012/966, arts. 2, 3(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/687/schedule/1/part/II/rule/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:38:16.243439+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."
}