The Teachers’ Pensions Regulations 2010

Deduction by employers of contributions, etc. from salary, payment in default and interest

28.—(1) The employer of a person in pensionable employment must deduct from that person’s salary each month the contributions and instalments mentioned in paragraph (3).

(2) If any contributions or instalments referred to in paragraph (1) are not deducted in the appropriate month in accordance with that paragraph the employer may deduct such contributions or instalments from the person’s salary in any subsequent month (but this paragraph does not affect regulation 30(1)(a) (payment by employers to Secretary of State).

(3) The contributions and instalments are—

(a) the contributions payable under regulation 18 (teachers’ ordinary contributions);

(b) any contributions payable under arrangements made under regulation 12(13)(c) (election for part-time employment before 1st May 1995 to be pensionable);

(c) any contributions payable under the terms of—

(i) an order of the Court determining a part-time claim, or

(ii) a compromise of a part-time claim in accordance with the “Public Sector Settlement Model” published by the Employment Tribunals Service in May 2003;

(d) any contributions payable under regulation C3(4) of TPR 1997 (which continues to have effect by virtue of paragraph 6 of Schedule 13 (savings and transitional provisions)) as a result of an election made under regulation C2(1) of those Regulations;

(e) any contributions payable under Schedule 4 (contributions for additional pensions);

(f) any contributions payable in accordance with Schedule 4 to TPR 1997 (which continues to have effect by virtue of paragraph 8 of Schedule 13) as a result of an election made under regulation C4(2) of those Regulations;

(g) any contributions payable in accordance with Schedule 5 to TPR 1997 (which continues to have effect by virtue of paragraph 10 of Schedule 13);

(h) any contributions payable under Schedule 5 (family benefit contributions);

(i) any instalments payable under regulation C16(5) to (7) of TPR 1997 (return by persons of repaid contributions by instalments) (which continues to have effect by virtue of paragraph 14 of Schedule 13).

(4) Where a person (T) has made an election under Schedule 4 (contributions for additional pension) and is in more than one part-time employment at the same time, the contributions referred to in paragraph (3)(e)—

(a) must be deducted by the employer nominated by T, and

(b) if in any month such contributions are more than the contributable salary paid by that employer for that month, the balance of such contributions must be deducted by the other employer (or, if there is more than one other employer, by whichever other employer is nominated by T).

(5) Where a person (T) has ceased to be employed by an employer (E) and, at the time when T ceased to be employed by E—

(a) any deduction required by paragraphs (1) to (3) to be made by E has not been made, and

(b) despite regulation 30(1)(a) (payment by employers to Secretary of State) a corresponding amount has not been paid to the Secretary of State pursuant to that regulation,

any amount remaining due, together with interest at the standard rate, from the due date to the date of payment, is to be paid by T to the Secretary of State on receipt of a written demand, but the Secretary of State may in any case waive the payment of the whole or any part of such interest.

(6) But paragraph (5) is subject to Part 4 of Schedule 13 where the date of the demand referred to in that paragraph falls before 1st December 2010.

(7) In paragraph (5) the “due date” is the 8th day after the end of the month in which the deduction required by paragraph (1) should have been made.

(8) In this regulation—

“court” includes a tribunal competent to determine a part-time claim;

“part-time claim” means a claim, made by the issue of court proceedings or otherwise, to a person who employed a person in employment falling within regulation 12(5) (election for part-time employment before 1st May 1995 to be pensionable) that there was a breach of the equality clause (as defined in section 1 of the Equal Pay Act 1970(1)) during such employment by virtue of the fact that the employment was not pensionable employment.

(1)

1970 c.41; relevant amending enactments are the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (c. 65) section 8(1), S.I.1983/1794 and 2005/2467.