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SECTION 2: MEMBERS’ PERIODICAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PENSIONABLE EARNINGS
  

Modification: reductions of contributions in respect of National Insurance
  

2.15 The amount of any contributions payable by a member under Rule 2.01 shall be reduced at the rate of 5p (6p for women) a week, if salary is payable weekly, or 22p (25p for women) a month, if salary is payable monthly; provided that such a reduction shall not be made:
   
  (a) in the case of a member who (not being a transferee to this Scheme on or after 1 October 1973 or in the case of a former non industrial scheme member 3 May 1973 from a scheme not approved for transfer purposes by the Civil Service Department) on commencing employment, or within 12 months prior thereto:
    
    (i) in the case of a former non industrial scheme member was an established Civil Servant (or would have become an established Civil Servant in the circumstances envisaged in Former Rule 28(6) to whom the National Insurance (Modification of the Superannuation Acts) Regulations 1948 did not apply; or
   
    (ii) was in superannuable employment or was a member of a superannuation scheme to which modification of pension in consequence of the National Insurance Act 1946 applied, but who, in relation thereto, was not paying reduced contributions and in respect of whom a transfer value has been received under Rule 9.10 or former Rule 10 (unless he could have elected under Former Rule 21(a)(ii) not to have such a reduction made and did not so elect) or in the case of a former non industrial scheme member Rule 9.10 or Former Rule 3(1) of the Principal Non Industrial Superannuation Scheme.
   
  (b) from any contributions paid under Rule 2.01 with respect to pensionable earnings for service on or after 1 April 1980.
   
If not contracted out of graduated pension scheme
   
2.16 During any period when a member was not contracted-out of the State graduated pension scheme, the contributions due from him under Rule 2.01 shall be reduced at the rate of:
   
  (a) 4.25% of his earnings between £9 and £15 a week (£39 and £65 a month) from 3 April 1961 to 31 May 1963; and
   
  (b) 4.25% of his earnings between £9 and £18 a week (£39 and £78 a month) from 1 June 1963 to 5 April 1975.
   
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