The Transport Act 2000 (Civil Aviation Authority Pension Scheme) Order 2001

Members' voluntary contributions

23.  A Current Member may, subject as hereinafter provided, make voluntary contributions to the NATS Section in order to provide benefits under the NATS Section which shall be additional to those otherwise specified in these NATS Rules (or, in the case of Family Benefit Contributions, to provide the appropriate benefits payable from the NATS Section upon the death of the Member), provided that the provisions relating to voluntary contributions and to the benefit thereby provided shall not be such as to prejudice approval of the Scheme under Chapter I of Part XIV of the Taxes Act(1) and, in particular, voluntary contributions made under arrangements first entered into by the Member on or after 8 April 1987 shall not be used to provide a cash sum in accordance with Rule 29.

The voluntary contributions of a Member under this Rule 23.3 shall be made either by way of deductions by the Employer from the payments of such Member’s remuneration as they are made or as otherwise agreed between the Member and the Trustees.

Subject as aforesaid, the types of benefit under the NATS Section to be provided in return for a Member’s voluntary contributions shall be such and, except as provided below, on such terms and conditions as may be arranged by the Member with the Trustees acting on the advice of the Actuary and may take the form, inter alia, of additional years to be included within Pensionable Service in the NATS Section or of additional benefit under the NATS Section to be payable upon the death of the Member or of additional pension benefits determined on a money purchase basis; provided always that the amount of benefit to be provided in return for a Member’s voluntary contributions shall be the equivalent of those contributions as determined by the Trustees acting on the advice of the Actuary and provided further that in respect of additional pension benefits determined on a money purchase basis:

(a) the additional pension benefits shall be equivalent on a money purchase basis to the voluntary contributions paid; and

(b) the benefits shall be limited to those which are capable of being provided by the Rules; and

(c) if the Trustees so determine, the assets and liabilities relating to such voluntary contributions to the NATS Section shall be identifiable and retained separately from other assets and liabilities of the NATS Section.

The benefits provided from such voluntary contributions shall not become payable earlier than the other Scheme benefits nor later than age 75

Notwithstanding the above provisions and the provisions of Rule 22, a Member who starts paying voluntary contributions on a date within three months of first becoming eligible to become a Current Member shall not be required to produce evidence of health.

(1)

1988 c. 1.