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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-C3",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2005/393",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Superannuation (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
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  "number": "C3",
  "heading": "Ordinary contributions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a teacher who is in pensionable employment is to pay contributions of 6 per cent of contributable salary for the time being.\n(2) A teacher who has made an election under regulation C2(1) shall, in addition to the contributions referred to in paragraph (1), pay contributions of the required percentage of the difference between the teacher’s actual contributable salary and the contributable salary at the rate referred to in regulation C2(4) to the extent that such contributions are not paid by any employer referred to in regulation H4 under an election mentioned in that regulation.\n(3) No contributions are to be paid by a teacher in respect of any reckonable service beyond a total of 45 years.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/393/regulation/C3",
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  "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."
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