{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-additional-voluntary-contributions-scotland-regulations-1992/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-additional-voluntary-contributions-scotland-regulations-1992/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2649",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Superannuation (Additional Voluntary Contributions) (Scotland) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-additional-voluntary-contributions-scotland-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Election to pay additional voluntary contributions",
  "text": "(1) A person in pensionable employment may at any time elect to pay periodical contributions under these Regulations—\n(a) for investment under regulation 9, or\n(b) to provide for a lump sum death benefit.\n(2) The notice of such an election shall specify—\n(a) whether the election relates to paragraph (1)(a) or (b), or both;\n(b) the amount of each periodical contribution or, if expressed as a percentage of salary, that percentage;\n(c) in relation to periodical contributions for the purpose of investment under regulation 9, the fund or funds in which the contributions are to be invested; and\n(d) subject to regulation 7(5), in relation to the provision of a lump sum death benefit, the amount to be secured which must not be less than £5,000.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2649/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:13:10.576646+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."
}