{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-firefighters-pension-scheme-consequential-provisions-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2015/9780111025833",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-firefighters-pension-scheme-consequential-provisions-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Contracting-out",
  "text": "(1) Part 2 of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations 1996 (certification of employments) is modified as follows in its application to the new scheme.\n(2) The requirements in regulation 2(1)(a) (making of elections for the issue of contracting-out certificates) and regulations 3 (notices by employers of intended election) to 5 (time for making an election) do not apply.\n(3) In regulation 6 (information to be included in an election)—\n(a) paragraph (1) is to be read as though, for sub-paragraphs (a) to (f), there were substituted—\n“(a) the name by which the new scheme is to be known;\n(b) the name by which the old schemes are known; and\n(c) any other information necessary to enable the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to identify the old schemes;”; and\n(b) paragraphs (2) and (3) do not apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1172. Part 2 was amended by section 1(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions etc.) Act 1999 (c.2), by section 1(2)(a) of the Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Act 1998 (c.8) and by S.I. 1997/786, S.I. 2002/681, S.I. 2005/3377, S.I. 2011/1245, S.I. 2011/1246, and S.I. 2013/2734."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2015/9780111025833/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:35:24.344468+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."
}