{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997/regulation-C9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/3001",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Pensions Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/C9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "C9",
  "heading": "Additional contributions for current period",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (11) to (14), this regulation applies to a person who—\n(a) before attaining the age of 60 has ceased to be in pensionable employment, otherwise than by virtue of an election under regulation B5, and\n(b) was not then incapacitated, and\n(c) did not then become entitled to payment of retirement benefits, and\n(d) has not become a member of another occupational pension scheme or is not engaged in full-time employment in a capacity described in Part II of Schedule 2.\n(2) Subject to paragraphs (3), (4) and (10), a person to whom this regulation applies may elect to pay additional contributions in order to become entitled to count as reckonable service a period (“the period”) beginning on the day after the cessation of the pensionable employment or, where paragraph (4)(a) applies, on the day after the last day of the earlier period.\n(3) The period—\n(a) must end before the person’s 60th birthday, and\n(b) must not in any case exceed the maximum calculated in accordance with Schedule 3, and\n(c) if the person has become employed as a teacher or supervisor in a school or educational service outside the British Islands, must not exceed 6 years, and\n(d) in any other case, must not exceed 3 years.\n(4) If the person has paid additional contributions under this regulation for an earlier period and—\n(a) he has not since the end of that period been in pensionable employment, or\n(b) he has since been in pensionable employment but for less than 12 months,\nthe earlier period is to be deducted from the maximum allowed by paragraph (3)(b).\n(5) If before the end of the period the person—\n(a) becomes entitled to payment of retirement benefits,\n(b) becomes a member of another occupational pension scheme, or\n(c) dies,\nthe period is to be treated as having ended on the day on which the relevant event occurred; and if before the end of the period he fails to pay an additional contribution, or a late payment is not accepted under paragraph (9), it is to be treated as having ended on the day up to which additional contributions have been paid.\n(6) An additional contribution is payable for each financial year and is a percentage of the notional salary for so much of the period as falls within that year.\n(7) For the purposes of paragraph (6)—\n(a) the notional salary is an amount notified by the former employer or, where no such notification is given, estimated by the Secretary of State as being what the person’s contributable salary would have been if pensionable employment had not ceased and the person had continued to be employed in the same post and on the same terms taking into account, where appropriate, any election under regulation C2(1); and\n(b) the percentage is (A+B−C) where A, B and C have the same meanings as in regulation G5(2).\n(8) The contribution for a financial year is to be paid direct to the Secretary of State—\n(a) where the period has not ended during the financial year, within 3 weeks after the end of the financial year, and\n(b) in any other case, within 6 weeks after the end of the period or the date of a written notification by the Secretary of State that payment is due, whichever is the later.\n(9) A late payment of a contribution may for special reasons be accepted by the Secretary of State; but if it is accepted the person is to pay interest on the amount of the contribution at 4% per annum compounded with yearly rests, from the due date of payment to the date of payment.\n(10) An election under this regulation must be made by giving written notice to the Secretary of State, which must specify the period and must be given—\n(a) if paragraph (3)(c) applies, within 6 months, and\n(b) in any other case, within 3 months,\nafter the cessation of the person’s pensionable employment or, if later, the end of a previous period for which he has paid additional contributions under this regulation.\n(11) For the purposes only of this regulation a person remains in pensionable employment while he is absent from duty during and in consequence of a trade dispute.\n(12) Paragraph (11) applies—\n(a) even if the person was not participating in or financing or otherwise directly interested in the trade dispute, and\n(b) even if his employer was not a party to the trade dispute.\n(13) This regulation does not apply to a person whose pensionable employment is employment as a relief teacher, that is to say a teacher who is employed in place of a person regularly employed and whose contract of employment is a short-term one.\n(14) In this regulation “trade dispute” has the meaning given in section 244 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 52."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/665",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers' Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/665",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers' Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "amendment to earlier amending provision 2010 SI990, Sch. 13 para. 11 (as substituted)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/275",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers’ Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev (with transtl provns) (1.1.2007)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/3122",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers’ Pensions etc. (Reform Amendments) Regulations 2006"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/3001/regulation/C9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:26.186253+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."
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