{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Further restrictions on eligibility",
  "text": "(1) If a person’s employment entitles him to belong to another statutory pension scheme, that employment does not entitle him to be a member, unless that other scheme was made under Article 9 of the Order of 1972.\n(2) A statutory pension scheme is an occupational pension scheme provided by or under an enactment.\n(3) A person may not become a member after the day before his 75th birthday.\n(4) Retained or volunteer membership with a fire and rescue authority (within the meaning given to that term by Article 3 of the Fire and Rescue Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006) on terms under which the retained or volunteer member is or may be required to engage in fire-fighting does not entitle the retained or volunteer member to be a member of the Scheme.\n(5) Any person who as a member of staff of the University of Ulster is eligible to participate in the Universities' Superannuation Scheme is not entitled to be a member of the Scheme.\n(6) A person who is a member and is an employee of a transferee admission body is treated as leaving a local government employment when he ceases to be employed in connection with the provision of a service or assets under regulation 4A(2) as a result of which employment he became eligible to join the Scheme.",
  "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. 5(3) substituted (6.4.2006) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/152), regs. 1(2)(a), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 5(4) substituted (1.7.2006) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/152), regs. 1(2)(d), 62"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 5(6) substituted (1.5.2005) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/206), regs. 1(2), 4, (with reg. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 1.2.2003, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/352/regulation/5",
    "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."
}