PART 3 N.I. Scheme membership

CHAPTER 3 N.I. Pensionable service

SECTION 1 N.I. General provisions

Service not pensionable unless member's contributions are paid N.I.

24.—(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.