{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-benefits-membership-and-contributions-regulations-2007/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-benefits-membership-and-contributions-regulations-2007/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1166",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Benefits, Membership and Contributions) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-benefits-membership-and-contributions-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Active members",
  "text": "(1) An employee of a body listed in—\n(a) Chapter 1 of Part 2 of;\n(b) Chapter 1 of Part 5 of; or\n(c) Schedule 2 to\nthe 1997 Regulations is an active member of the Scheme.\n(2) But a person is not an active member unless he is employed under a contract of employment of more than three months’ duration.\n(3) An active member of the 1997 Scheme is an active member of the Scheme for as long as he continues in Local Government Pension Scheme employment.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.4.2008, see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/2090",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Miscellaneous) Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/1166",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Benefits, Membership and Contributions) Regulations 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/1989",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Miscellaneous) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/1989",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Miscellaneous) Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/1083",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1166/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:55:24.824335+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."
}