Public Sector Superannuation Reform Regulations 2017
130Obligations of members to contribute
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130 Obligations of members to contribute
(1) The rate of member contributions is 5%, 6%, 7%, 8%, 9%, 10% or 11% of salary, as selected by the member.
(2) A member may, with effect from 1 July each year or another date that is agreed by the Commission, change the member’s contribution to any of the rates specified in subregulation (1) .
(3) Until the rate of contribution is changed under subregulation (2) , a transferring member is taken to be making the same rate of contribution, including no contribution, as he or she was making, or was taken to be making, under the TASS Trust Deed immediately before 30 June 2006.
(4) A member must contribute to the TASS Scheme at the rate, specified in subregulation (1) , selected by that member, until the earliest of the dates on which the member –
(a) leaves service; or
(b) reaches the normal retirement date; or
(c) reaches the required payment date.
(5) Despite subregulation (4) , no member contributions are payable while a member suffers a temporary incapacity and the member contributions that would, but for this subregulation, otherwise be payable are taken to have been paid by the member.
(6) A member who is an employee, the Commission and the Ambulance Service may agree that instead of deducting the member’s contributions from the member’s salary, an amount equal to those contributions, after allowing for contributions tax, and any other tax agreed between the member and the Ambulance Service, is paid to the Commission by the Ambulance Service in respect of the member in lieu of salary.
(7) Any deductions from a member’s salary by the Ambulance Service and paid to the Commission, or amounts paid to the Commission in lieu of a member’s salary, which do not comply with subregulations (4) , (5) or (6) , as the case may be, or with the member’s instructions, are taken to not be contributions under these regulations and are to be repaid to the member.
(8) Unless otherwise agreed under subregulation (6) , the Ambulance Service is to automatically deduct from the member’s salary the regular contributions of a member.