{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Payment of contributions and amount of regular contributions",
  "text": "(1) Regular contributions shall be paid to the Department at intervals of one month.\n(2) Payment of regular contributions under paragraph (1) shall be effected by deduction by the contributor’s employer of the appropriate amounts from the contributor’s salary and such deductions shall—\n(a) commence to be made from the salary in respect of the first whole pay period falling after the date on which the employer receives authorisation to make them; and\n(b) be remitted by that employer to the Department within 14 days after their deduction.\n(3) The total of contributions paid in any tax year shall not exceed the lesser of\n(A-B-C)and D, where—\nA is 15 per cent of the person’s salary for that year;\nB is the total of any contributions paid by him in the year to another approved scheme;\nC is the total of the contributions paid by him in the year under the Principal Regulations; and\nD is the amount which would be likely to provide benefits of the largest amounts permitted by regulation 14 and the Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/260/regulation/8",
    "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."
}