{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Joining the Scheme",
  "text": "(1) A person who wishes to become an active member must apply in writing to his employer or future employer.\n(2) An eligible person who applies before he begins his employment becomes a member when his employment begins unless he applies to join later.\n(3) An eligible employee who applies becomes a member on the first day of the first payment period following the application.\n(4) A payment period is a period of service to which the employee’s wages or salary payment relate.\n(5) An employee is deemed to have applied to become a member, unless he notified his employer in writing that he did not wish to do so –\n(a) before his employment began; or\n(b) if he only became eligible to be a member later, before the date he became eligible.\n(6) But paragraph (5) does not apply –\n(a) to casual employees; or\n(b) to former members who opted to leave the Scheme by a notification under regulation 7.\n(7) An application for membership may be withdrawn before membership begins.\n(8) A former active member may reapply for such membership.\n(9) But a person who has given more than one notification under regulation 7 may only reapply again if –\n(a) his employer or future employer consents; or\n(b) he is beginning a new employment with a new employing authority and he reapplies before he has been employed for three months; or\n(c) he is a person about whom information may be given under Article 164(1) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, as it has effect in the case of 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": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 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/6",
    "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."
}