{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-teaching-and-local-government-interchange-rules-1970/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/superannuation-teaching-and-local-government-interchange-rules-1970/article-9.json",
  "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/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Voluntary Contributions",
  "text": "(1) A person to whom this Part applies may elect to continue to pay voluntary contributions being paid by him immediately before ceasing to be employed in teaching service.\n(2) If a person elects as aforesaid and—\n(a) within three months of becoming employed in local government employment, or within such longer period as the fund authority may in any particular case allow, pays to that authority a sum equal to the aggregate of any sum paid to him by way of return of voluntary contributions on or after ceasing to be employed in teaching service, any interest added thereto and any amount deducted therefrom in respect of liability to income tax by reason of the payment; and\n(b) thereafter pays to that authority any amounts outstanding in respect of those voluntary contributions as they would have been payable if he had remained in teaching service\nhis local government employment shall be affected in the manner prescribed by the following provisions of this rule.\n(3) In respect of voluntary contributions made in respect of any period of previous employment and any period additional to actual service, the person shall enjoy rights and be subject to liabilities as if any such period were added years in respect of which payments are being made in his local government employment under regulation 12 of the Benefits Regulations or, if in his local government employment he is subject to a local Act scheme, under such provisions corresponding to the said regulation 12 or to regulation 5 of the Local Government Superannuation (Reckoning of Service on Transfer) Regulations 1954 as are contained in that scheme.\n(4) In respect of voluntary contributions other than those to which paragraph (3) applies, the person shall be treated as if those contributions had been completed immediately before he ceased to be employed in teaching service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1954 I, p. 1676)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/1646/article/9",
    "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."
}