{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/260",
  "legislation_title": "Teachers' Superannuation (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Election to pay regular and lump sum contributions",
  "text": "(1) A person employed in reckonable service may at any time elect to pay—\n(a) regular contributions for investment under regulation 9(1);\n(b) a lump sum contribution for investment under regulation 9(1); or\n(c) regular contributions to secure the payment of a lump sum death benefit under these Regulations.\n(2) An election under paragraph (1) shall specify—\n(a) in the case of an election under sub-paragraph (a) or (c), the amount of each regular contribution or, if expressed as a percentage of salary, that percentage.\n(b) in the case of an election under sub-paragraph (b) the amount of the contribution;\n(c) in the case of an election under sub-paragraph (a) or (b) the fund or funds in which contributions are to be invested; and\n(d) in the case of an election under paragraph (1)(c) the amount to be secured which must not be less than £5,000.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2015/294",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers’ Superannuation (Additional Voluntary Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/260/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:35:23.219519+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."
}