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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-contracting-out-regulations-1996/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-contracting-out-regulations-1996/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1172",
  "legislation_title": "Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-contracting-out-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Time for making an election.",
  "text": "An election may be made only after the date of expiry of the notice given under regulation 3 and within 3 months of that date (or such longer period as the Secretary of State may in his discretion allow), but nothing in this regulation shall prevent an election from being made after the giving of further notices which comply with the requirements of that regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. II modified (S.) (1.4.2015) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/145), regs. 1(2), 4 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Pt. II modified (S.) (1.4.2015) by The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/117), regs. 1(2), 4 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Pt. II modified (1.4.2015) by The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Consequential and Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/372), regs. 1(2), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Pt. II modified (1.4.2015) by The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (England) (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/319), regs. 1(2), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Pt. II modified (1.4.2015) by The Armed Forces Pension (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/390), regs. 1(2), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Pt. II modified (S.) (1.4.2015) by The Police Pensions (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/118), regs. 1(2), 4 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Regs. 3-5 excluded (1.4.2015) by The Police Pensions (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/370), regs. 1(2), 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Regs. 3-5 excluded (W.) (1.4.2015) by The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Wales) (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015 (No. 848), regs. 1(2), 4(2) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "Pt. II applied (with modifications) (1.4.2015 coming into force in accordance with ) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/432), regs. 1(2), 4(1) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "Pt. II modified (1.4.2015) by The Judicial Pensions Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/182), reg. 1(4), Sch. 3 para. 2 (with regs. 148, 160, Sch. 3 paras. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C11",
      "text": "Pt. II modified (S.) (1.4.2015) by The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/146), regs. 1(2), 4 (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C12",
      "text": "Pt. II modified (1.4.2015) by The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/436), regs. 1(2), 4 (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1172/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:44:46.785957+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."
}