{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-regulations-2008/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-regulations-2008/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/239",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "General eligibility for membership",
  "text": "(1) A person may only be an active member of the Scheme if—\n(a) this regulation, or any of regulations 5 to 9 and 10(3); or\n(b) regulation 2(3) of the Benefits Regulations\nenables him to be one and he is not prevented by regulation 12.\n(2) A person may be an active member if he is employed by a body which is listed in Schedule 2.\n(3) But a person who is employed by a body listed in Part 2 of that Schedule may only be an active member if he, or a class of employees to which he belongs, is designated by the body as being eligible for membership of the Scheme.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.4.2008, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/1166."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/3150",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Miscellaneous) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/239",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/239/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:37:03.256641+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."
}