The Postal Services Act 2011 (Transfer of Accrued Pension Rights) Order 2012

Plan U

14.—(1) A Member may have elected to pay the contributions due in respect of that Member’s RMPP Reckonable Service before joining the contributory part of the RMPP in accordance with “Plan U” under General Rule 24 (Plan U) of the RMPP Rules, in units of 1 ¹/₂% of that Member’s salary subject to the limits on contributions in paragraph 7(c) of Schedule 13 (Overriding Finance Act Provisions) to the RMPP Rules.

(2) A Member who never had a spouse before joining the contributory part of the RMPP and who did not marry before the end of the Cut-Off Date will be entitled to a refund of contributions with Interest on that Member’s retirement under the RMSPS.

(3) If a Member ceased to have a spouse before joining the contributory part of the RMPP and that Member did not re-marry before the end of the Cut-Off Date, the amount previously due to the RMPP shall be recalculated to the date when that Member last had a spouse before joining the contributory part of the RMPP, and the difference (if any) between the amount paid to the Fund by the Member and the amount due on such recalculation shall be refunded to the Member with Interest on that Member’s retirement under the RMSPS; provided that if the Member was serving in the designated category of service similar to service in the Civil Service in an unestablished capacity on the date that Member joined the contributory part of the RMPP or 1 June 1972, whichever is the earlier, and that Member ceased to have a spouse before that date and that Member did not remarry before the end of the Cut-Off Date, no contributions would have been payable at that time, and any amount paid to the Fund by the Member will be refunded to that Member with Interest on that Member’s retirement under the RMSPS.