{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2002/352",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2002",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "General eligibility for membership: employees of Scheme employers etc.",
  "text": "(1) A person may only be an active member if this regulation, or regulation 4 , regulation 4A enables him to be one and he is not prevented by regulation 5.\n(2) A person may be a member if he is employed by a Scheme employer.\n(3) A Scheme employer is a local authority as defined in Article 2 of the Order of 1972.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked in part (1.4.2009) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/34), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) inserted (1.6.2005) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/274), regs. 1(2), 3, (with regs. 28, 29)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 1.2.2003, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "As extended by The Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/156), Part II, Article 5(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/352/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:06:03.867007+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."
}