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PART 3 E+WScheme membership

CHAPTER 3E+WPensionable service

SECTION 1E+WGeneral provisions

Service not pensionable unless members' contributions are paidE+W

24.—(1) The scheme manager may decide that a period of service in respect of which members' contributions are not paid is not a period of pensionable service if—

(a)the scheme manager 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[F1;]

[F2but this is subject to paragraph (3)]

(2) The period of service is not a period of pensionable service if the scheme manager—

(a)gives the member written notice to that effect; and

(b)repays the member any amount paid in part satisfaction of the demand[F3;]

[F4but this is subject to paragraph (3)]

[F5(3) A period within the previous provisions of this regulation counts as a period of pensionable service to the extent that regulation 192(2) covers it.]