{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-local-government-and-federated-schemes-employment-interchange-rules-1969/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-local-government-and-federated-schemes-employment-interchange-rules-1969/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1969/417",
  "legislation_title": "The Superannuation (Local Government and Federated Schemes Employment) Interchange Rules 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-local-government-and-federated-schemes-employment-interchange-rules-1969",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Computation of contributions",
  "text": "(1) Where any enactment relating to local government superannuation refers, in connection with assessing a return of contributions or a benefit, to the amount of the contributions paid by a person, the amount of the contributions paid by a person to whom this part of these rules applies shall be deemed to be increased, in accordance with the provisions of this rule, to take account of earlier periods of service which became reckonable under rule 10.\n(2) Subject to the provisions of this rule, the amount of the increase shall be the amount which would have been payable to him if, on leaving Federated Schemes Employment, he had been entitled to a return of contributions without interest.\n(3) Where an amount described in paragraph (1) of this rule is the amount of a person's contributions with interest thereon, interest shall also be payable on the amount by which those contributions are increased under paragraph (2), calculated—\n(a) as respects the period ending immediately before he entered local government employment, at the rate at which it would have been calculated under the relevant scheme if on leaving Federated Schemes Employment he had been entitled to a return of contributions with interest; and\n(b) as respects the period beginning on his entry into local government employment, in the manner described in section 10(1) of the Act of 1937.\n(4) For the purposes of this rule no account shall be taken of—\n(a) payments made voluntarily for securing family benefits;\n(b) any sum in respect of contributions which were returned to and retained by the person who paid them;\n(c) any voluntary contributions described in rule 11 which have not been continued under that rule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1969/417/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:13:50.476693+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."
}