PART 3Scheme membership
CHAPTER 3Pensionable service
SECTION 1General provisions
Service not pensionable unless member's contributions are paid24.
(1)
The Department may decide that a period of service in respect of which member's contributions are not paid is not a period of pensionable service if—
(a)
the Department has sent the member a demand under regulation 194 (“the demand”) in respect of those contributions; and
(b)
within 3 years after the date of the demand, the member has not paid the whole of the amount and interest stated in the demand.
(2)
The period of service is not a period of pensionable service if the Department —
(a)
gives the member written notice to that effect; and
(b)
repays the member any amount paid in part satisfaction of the demand.