{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2008/228",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) (Scotland) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-scotland-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Ending of membership",
  "text": "(1) A person stops being a member in an employment if the person stops being eligible for membership in that employment.\n(2) A person who wishes to leave the Scheme must notify his or her employer in writing.\n(3) A person with more than one employment may leave the Scheme if the person wishes in respect of one, some or all of the employments.\n(4) A member who gives notice under paragraph (2) stops being a member in the specified employment from the date the notification specifies.\n(5) But, if a date earlier than the notification or no date is specified, the member stops being a member at the end of the payment period during which the notification is given.\n(6) Where notice is given by a person before that person has been a member for one month, that person must be treated as not having been a member in that period.\n(7) A person who is a member and is an employee of a transferee admission body is treated for the purposes of these Regulations and the Benefit Regulations as leaving a local government employment when the person ceases to be employed in connection with the provision of the service or assets under regulation 5(2) (employees of non-Scheme employers: transferee admission bodies) by virtue of which the person became eligible to join the scheme.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 11 in force at 1.4.2009, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2012/347",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "ssi/2008/228",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) (Scotland) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/228/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:32:50.357537+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."
}