The Local Government Pension Scheme (Benefits, Membership and Contributions) Regulations 2007

Contributions payable by active members

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (9), each active member shall make contributions to the Scheme at the contribution rate from his pensionable pay in each employment in which he is an active member.

(2) Subject to paragraph (4), the contribution rate to be applied to his pensionable pay in any financial year is calculated on the basis of his pensionable pay in the previous financial year in accordance with the following table.

Band	Range	Contribution rate
1	£0-£12,000	5.5%
2	£12,001-£14,000	5.8%
3	£14,001-£18,000	5.9%
4	£18,001-£30,000	6.5%
5	£30,001-£40,000	6.8%
6	£40,001-£75,000	7.2%
7	More than £75,000	7.5%

(3) On 1st April 2009, and each subsequent anniversary thereof, the figures in the second column of the table in paragraph (2) (“Range”) are increased as if they were pensions to which the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971(1) applied.

(4) Where a member is employed in any employment for part only of any financial year, the range (and the contribution rate) applicable to him are those that would have applied had he been so employed for the whole of that financial year.

(5) Where a member is a part-time employee, his contributions shall be calculated by multiplying the contributions he would have paid had he been a full-time employee (calculated in accordance with paragraph (2)) by the proportion that the number of his weekly hours bears to the number of weekly hours that he would have worked had he been a full-time employee.

(6) But a term-time worker is not a part-time employee for the purposes of this regulation.

(7) In this regulation, “term-time worker” means a person whose contract of employment provides for a regular pattern of periods of work and periods of no work so as to result in a recognisable cycle of work consisting of one year (but is not limited to persons working in educational establishments).

(8) The amount of an employee’s pensionable pay for the purposes of this regulation is calculated in accordance with regulation 4.

(9) In any event, an active member does not make any contributions after the day before his 75th birthday.

(10) A person who is an active member in more than one employment must make contributions for each of those employments.

(11) His appropriate administering authority may decide the intervals at which the contributions are made.

(12) For this regulation any reduction in pensionable pay by reason of the actual or assumed enjoyment by the member of any statutory entitlement during any period away from work shall be disregarded.

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1971 c. 56.