{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overseas-service-pensions-scheme-and-fund-regulations-1966/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overseas-service-pensions-scheme-and-fund-regulations-1966/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1966/1629",
  "legislation_title": "The Overseas Service Pensions (Scheme and Fund) Regulations 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overseas-service-pensions-scheme-and-fund-regulations-1966",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Repayment of contributions on withdrawal from the Scheme",
  "text": "(1) Where a contributor leaves overseas service before attaining the pension age (otherwise than on medical grounds), he may elect at any time thereafter to receive a refund of the contributions which he has paid to the Scheme.\n(2) If a contributor elects to receive a refund of contributions under these Regulations he shall cease to rank for benefit under the Scheme as from the date of the receipt of his election.\n(3) Where a contributor is dismissed from overseas service whether before or after attaining the pension age, he shall not be entitled at any time thereafter to receive a fund of the contributions which he has paid to the Scheme, or any part thereof, unless the Minister so directs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1966/1629/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:40:02.140753+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."
}