{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-1989/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-1989/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/946",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Superannuation (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Basic and death benefit contributors",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), a person is a basic contributor–\n(a) while an election under regulation 4(1) (regular contributions) has effect, or\n(b) if he has paid one or more lump sum contributions.\n(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), a person is a death benefit contributor while an election under regulation 5(1) has effect.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4), a person who–\n(a) has ceased to be in pensionable employment, and\n(b) is not paying contributions under regulation C8 of the 1988 Regulations (additional contributions for current period),\nceases to be either a basic contributor or a death benefit contributor.\n(4) A person who–\n(a) has ceased to be in pensionable employment, and\n(b) has re-entered pensionable employment within 3 months,\nis to be treated as having continued to be in pensionable employment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/946/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:43:41.084347+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."
}