PART 1Membership, contributions and benefits
Contributions
Contributions during absence for illness etc14
1
An active member away from employment by reason of illness or injury must pay contributions in accordance with regulations 9 or 10 on any pensionable pay received, including statutory pay but that pay does not include any amount that reduces the member's actual pensionable pay on account of possible entitlement to statutory pay.
2
If an active member is absent from employment by reason of illness or injury and is not entitled to receive pensionable pay (including statutory pay) for any period that member—
a
is treated for the purposes of these Regulations as if that member had paid contributions for that period under paragraph (1); and
b
if that member has an arrangement under regulation 16 (additional pension contributions) which was entered into prior to the commencement of the period of absence, that member is treated for the purposes of these Regulations as if that member had paid contributions under regulation 16.