{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-1998/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-1998/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/366",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-1998",
  "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 become a member–\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) Paragraph (5) does not apply to–\n(a) casual employees; or\n(b) 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members who opted to leave the Scheme by a notification under regulation 7.\n(7) An application for membership may be withdrawn before membership begins.\n(8) A former active member may reapply for membership.\n(9) Notwithstanding paragraph (8), a person who has given more than one notification under regulation 7 may reapply again only if–\n(a) his employer or future employer consents;\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 an individual who during any period has been eligible to be a member but has instead made contributions to a personal pension scheme and has suffered loss as a result of a contravention which is actionable under section 62 of the Financial Services Act 1986 (actions for damages in respect of contravention of rules etc. made under the Act).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 1.4.1998, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 60."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/366",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "words added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3649",
      "affecting_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/366/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:37:18.437535+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."
}