Article 12 Continuation of voluntary contributions
The provisions of this rule shall have effect for the purpose of enabling a person to whom this part of these rules applies to continue any voluntary contributions which are described herein and which he was in course of paying immediately before leaving approved employment.
Where a person elects to continue any such contributions, he shall—
when notifying the fund authority under rule 10(a)(i), notify them also that he wishes to continue the payment of voluntary contributions;
within the period specified in rule 10(a) or allowed under rule 21, pay to the fund authority a sum equal to the sum (if any) paid to him by way of return of any such contributions; and
make the payments required by this rule.
Where the voluntary contributions were paid in respect of added years, the person shall pay the outstanding amounts as they would have been payable in his approved employment; and thereupon in respect of the added years to which the voluntary payments relate he shall enjoy rights and be subject to liabilities as if those years were added years in respect of which payments were being made under regulation 12 of the benefits regulations.
Where the voluntary contributions were paid by way of—
instalments in discharge of a fixed sum or
contributions of a fraction or percentage of emoluments,
as a condition of being entitled to reckon any period of service for the purposes of the approved pension scheme, or as a condition of increasing the length at which any period of service would be reckoned for those purposes, the person shall pay in the former case a sum or sums equivalent to the aggregate amount or value of the unpaid instalments, and in the latter case a sum or sums equivalent to the capital value of the outstanding liabilities (as certified by an actuary appointed by the pension scheme trustees), as if paragraphs 2, 4(a) and 4(b) of schedule 2 to the benefits regulations applied to the payment of any such sum or sums; and thereupon his service shall for purposes of rule 11 be affected as nearly as may be in the same manner as it would have been affected in his approved employment if he had completed those payments before leaving that employment.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this rule, the person shall not be required to make payments between the date on which he retires from local government employment and the date on which he would ordinarily have expected to retire from his approved employment if he had continued therein.