Paragraph 13

This paragraph applies where–

The rate at which family benefit contributions are to be paid, and any higher rate substituted by an election under sub-paragraph (4), must be an integral percentage, not in any case exceeding 9, of the person’s salary.

If the person is paying additional contributions to purchase past added years under regulation C3 or C5, or towards the provision of a pension otherwise than under these Regulations, sub-paragraph (2) has effect with the substitution for “9 ” of the number obtained by deducting from 9 the percentage rate of those contributions.

The election may at any time be varied by an election to pay the family benefit contributions at a specified higher rate.

An election under sub-paragraph (4) must be made by giving written notice to the Secretary of State, and has effect from the first day of the month following that in which the notice is received by him.

The payment period begins on the first day of the month following that in which it is notified to the person by the Secretary of State.

If after the start of the payment period there is an interval of more than 30 days during which the person is not in pensionable employment or paying additional contributions to purchase current added years under regulation C8–

If after the start of the payment period the person becomes employed part-time in pensionable employment, the length of the payment period is increased by so much of the period of part-time employment as does not count as reckonable service.

If the original election is varied by one made under sub-paragraph (4) (“the further election ”),the length of the payment period is reduced to

where–

• A is what the length of the payment period would have been if the increased rate had been specified in the original election,

• B is the rate specified in the original election,

• C is the increased rate, and

• D is the period from the start of the payment period to the effective date of the further election.

The contributions–