{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-service-other-crown-servants-pension-scheme-regulations-2016/regulation-2A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-service-other-crown-servants-pension-scheme-regulations-2016/regulation-2A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/326",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Service (Other Crown Servants) Pension Scheme Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-service-other-crown-servants-pension-scheme-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/2A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2A",
  "heading": "Conditions of eligibility for a GCHQ eligible person",
  "text": "(1) A person (P) meets the conditions of eligibility if—\n(a) P was an active member of one of the following on the protected transfer date—\n(i) the First Connected Scheme;\n(ii) the Second Connected Scheme;\n(iii) the Third Connected Scheme;\n(iv) the Fourth Connected Scheme;\n(v) this scheme\n(b) P is an active member of one of the schemes listed in sub-paragraph (a) after the protected transfer date; and\n(c) since the protected transfer date P has been continuously employed by Government Communications Headquarters to carry out a protected function.\n(2) For the purpose of paragraph 1(c), P has not been continuously employed where P has had a gap in service of any period.\n(3) A person who ceases to meet the conditions of eligibility ceases to be a GCHQ eligible person on the date that the person ceases to meet those conditions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2A inserted (23.5.2019) by The Civil Service (Other Crown Servants) Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/906), regs. 1(2)(c), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 2A(1)(a) substituted (1.4.2022) by The Civil Service (Other Crown Servants) Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/334), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2A(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2022) by The Civil Service (Other Crown Servants) Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/334), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2A(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2022) by The Civil Service (Other Crown Servants) Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/334), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(b)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/326/regulation/2A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:25:51.592832+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."
}