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.