{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-transitional-provisions-pensions-regulations-2015/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-transitional-provisions-pensions-regulations-2015/regulation-31.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/568",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Transitional Provisions) Pensions Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-transitional-provisions-pensions-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Insertion of new article 5 into the Reserve Forces Pension Scheme Regulations 2005",
  "text": "The Reserve Forces Pension Scheme Regulations 2005(“the RFPS Regulations 2005”) are amended by inserting after regulation 2 the following new regulation—\n“Closure of Scheme and transitional provision\n3. (1) Schedule 3 (Transitional Provision) has effect.\n(2) After 31st March 2015, the Scheme is closed to new members except where provided for in Schedule 3.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 31 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "These regulations are Defence Council Regulations made under sections 4(2) and (3), and 8(1) and (3) of the Reserve Forces Act 1996 (c. 14). They have been amended by the Reserve Forces Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2006, the Reserve Forces Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2009 and the Reserve Forces Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2012. These instruments can be found at www.gov.uk/government/publications/reserve-forces-pension-scheme-regulations. Hard copies can be obtained from CDP-Remuneration, Armed Forces Pensions, Level 6, Zone M, Ministry of Defence, Main Building, London SW1A 2HB. These regulations have also been amended by the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/107)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/568/regulation/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:44:05.078431+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}