{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-protected-persons-england-and-wales-pension-regulations-1990/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-protected-persons-england-and-wales-pension-regulations-1990/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/346",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Protected Persons) (England and Wales) Pension Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-protected-persons-england-and-wales-pension-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Protected employee",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), this regulation applies to any person who–\n(a) is an existing employee and immediately before the transfer date is a participant in the Pension Scheme;\n(b) is an existing employee and, on or after that date, participates in the Pension Scheme within three months of his attaining the minimum age for such participation;\n(c) was formerly a member of the Pension Scheme and, on or after that date, participates in or accrues pension rights under that Scheme in circumstances which, if the date upon which he had ceased to accrue pension rights in that Scheme had been after the transfer date, would not have been treated as a break in his continuity of employment under regulation 5; or\n(d) is a person who participates in the Pension Scheme in pursuance of regulations made under paragraph 1(1)(a)(i) or (ii) of Schedule 14 to the Act.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall cease to apply to any person who–\n(a) elects under regulation 17(1)(a) or (b) to cease to be a protected person or a protected employee;\n(b) ceases to be in continuous employment for the purposes of regulation 5; or\n(c) ceases, other than at the requirement of his employer, to participate in a relevant scheme (except as provided in paragraph (3)(b) or (c)).\n(3) A person shall not cease to be a protected employee–\n(a) if, after ceasing to participate in a relevant scheme as a protected employee, he subsequently participates in another relevant scheme as a protected employee and has not, during the period in which he did not participate, ceased to be in continuous employment;\n(b) if he would have ceased to be a protected employee as a result of a representation by or on behalf of his employer or prospective employer that the action by that person which would but for this sub-paragraph have caused him to cease to be a protected employee would not have that effect; or\n(c) if, following any resolution to wind up the relevant scheme in which that person participates, he transfers to the relevant scheme provided under regulation 10, 11 or 12.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 31.3.1990, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/346/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:26:55.079887+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."
}