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SCHEDULE C4ADDITIONAL VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS

Changes of employment in which membership is continued

10.—(1) If a member—

(a)ceases to be employed by the employing authority to which notice as given under paragraph 1(1);

(b)was making payments of additional contributions up to the date of cessation, and

(c)before the expiry of the period of one month and one day beginning with that date enters a new employment in which he is also a member;

he may elect that his election to pay contributions under regulation C24 should continue to have effect.

(2) An election under sub-paragraph (1) shall be made by notice given in writing to the member’s new employing authority before the expiry of the period of one month beginning with the date on which the new employment begins.

11.  As soon as the new employing authority receive a notice of election under paragraph 10 they shall forward it to the appropriate administering authority in relation to the new employment.

12.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the member shall, with effect from the next pay day after the day on which notice was given under paragraph 10, make payments of contributions under regulation C24 in his new employment under his notice under paragraph 1(1) (as it has effect for the time being).

(2) No payment of contributions under regulation C24 shall be made with respect to the period (if any) between the two employments mentioned in paragraph 10.

13.  If the member’s appropriate administering authority in the two employments mentioned in paragraph 10 is the same, that authority shall—

(a)apply any continuing contributions, which are specified to be used to provide benefits payable in the event of death, towards the pension policy mentioned in paragraph 6; and

(b)continue to invest all contributions paid by him and not specified to be so used in the manner mentioned in paragraph 7.

14.  If the authorities which are the member’s appropriate administering authorities in the two employments mentioned in paragraph 10 are different—

(a)the former appropriate administering authority shall—

(i)so far as is possible, assign to the new appropriate administering authority any of their rights under such a pension policy as is mentioned in paragraph 6, and

(ii)transfer to the new appropriate administering authority a sum equal to the accumulated value of his invested additional contributions mentioned in paragraph 7(1); and

(b)the new appropriate administering authority shall apply or invest the sum received, and payments of additional contributions, in the manner mentioned in paragraph 13.

15.—(1) Paragraphs 7(2) and 10 to 17 shall have effect in relation to a cessation of the new employment as if the new employment were the one in relation to which notice was given under paragraph 1(1) (and so on).