{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-teaching-and-local-government-interchange-rules-1970/article-20",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1970/1646",
  "legislation_title": "The Superannuation (Teaching and Local Government) Interchange Rules 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-teaching-and-local-government-interchange-rules-1970",
  "path": "article/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Voluntary Contributions",
  "text": "(1) A person to whom this Part applies may elect to continue to pay voluntary contributions of any category being paid by him immediately before ceasing to be employed in local government employment.\n(2) If a person elects as aforesaid and—\n(a) within three months of becoming employed in teaching service, or within such longer period as the Secretary of State may in any particular case allow, pays to the Secretary of State a sum equal to the aggregate of any sum paid to him on or after ceasing to be employed in local government employment by way of return of voluntary contributions of any category he has elected to continue to pay, any interest added thereto and any amount deducted therefrom in respect of liability to income tax arising by reason of the payment; and\n(b) thereafter pays to the Secretary of State any amounts outstanding in respect of voluntary contributions of any category he has elected to continue to pay at the times at which they would have been payable if he had remained in local government employment\nhis teaching service shall be affected in the manner prescribed by the following provisions of this rule.\n(3) In respect of voluntary contributions paid in respect of added years, those years shall be reckoned as reckonable service.\n(4) In respect of voluntary contributions paid otherwise than in respect of added years, the service in respect of which they are paid shall be reckoned for the purposes of the Teachers' Regulations in the manner in which it would under rule 19 have been so reckoned if the payment of the contributions had been completed immediately before the person ceased to be employed in local government.\n(5) The provisions of paragraph (5)(b), (6), (7), (8) and (12) of regulation 32 and of regulation 38 of the principal Teachers' Regulations shall apply to voluntary contributions payable under this rule as if they were additional contributions payable in respect of previous employment within the meaning of those Regulations.\n(6) If a person does not elect as aforesaid or if voluntary contributions are repaid to him under regulation 38 of the principal Teachers' Regulations, as applied by this rule, the period in respect of which such contributions were paid shall be reckoned for the purposes of the Teachers' Regulations only to the extent, if any, to which it would have been so reckoned if no such payments or contributions had been made in respect thereof.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/1646/article/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:53:41.541852+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."
}