16.2. The pensionable salary of an employee who is released without pay for union activities is the salary paid by a body designated in Schedule II.1.
The body concerned must deduct the contributions from the pensionable salary it pays to the employee and must pay the employer’s contributory amount only on the part of the pensionable salary that exceeds the pensionable salary the employer would have paid if the employee had not been released without pay. The employer referred to in section 31 must pay the contributory amount that would have been paid if the employee had not been released without pay.