{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1997/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1997/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1612",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Leaving the Scheme",
  "text": "(1) A person may leave the Scheme if he wishes and stops being a member if he stops being eligible for membership.\n(2) A person who wishes to leave the Scheme must notify his employer in writing.\n(3) A member who gives such a notification stops being a member from the date the notification specifies.\n(4) But, if a date earlier than the notification or no date is specified, he stops being a member at the end of the payment period during which the notification is given.\n(5) Where notification is given by a person before he has been a member for three months, he must be treated as not having been a member in that period.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1612/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:06:30.691853+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."
}