{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-regulations-2015/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-regulations-2015/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/95",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Carry-forward of old scheme opt-out",
  "text": "Where, on the date a person becomes eligible to join the new scheme, that person has—\n(a) opted out of membership of the old scheme pursuant to regulation—\n(i) B4 of the 1995 Regulations; or\n(ii) 2.B.5 or 3.B.5 of the 2008 Regulations; or\n(b) provided their employer with a valid opt-out notice for the purposes of regulations 9 or 15 of the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) Regulations 2010 (“the 2010 Regulations”),\nthat person is to be treated as having also opted out under paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to the 2015 Regulations or given notice for the purposes of the 2010 Regulations in relation to the new scheme.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I 2010/772. Regulation 9 has been amended by S.I. 2013/2556."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/95/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:49:25.608482+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."
}