{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-C2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-C2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3253",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Pensions (Consolidation and Amendment) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/C2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "C2",
  "heading": "Membership for Prime Ministers and Speakers",
  "text": "(1) Any person who on or after 28th February 1991 holds or has held the office of—\n(a) Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury; or\n(b) the Speaker of the House of Commons\nmay exercise an option in writing to become a participating Member in the principal scheme.\n(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) below, the effective date of the option is whatever date the Trustees shall determine to be the earliest practicable date after that on which they receive written notice of the exercise of the option.\n(3) If in respect of a person entitled to exercise an option under paragraph (1) above the Trustees receive the written notice not more than three months after the date of the appointment or election of that person to that office, the effective date of the option is the date of that appointment or election; and he shall pay to the Trustees within twenty-eight days of his exercise of the option, or within such longer period as the Trustees may in their discretion determine, the sum certified by the Trustees as being the amount which would have been deducted from his salary under regulation D1 between the effective date of the option and the first date thereafter when a deduction from his salary under regulation D1 is made.\n(4) If in respect of the person who on 28th February 1991 held the office of Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, the Trustees receive the written notice not more than three months after the date when these Regulations come into force, the effective date of the option is 1st April 1993; and he shall pay to the Trustees within twenty-eight days of his exercise of the option, or within such longer period as the Trustees may in their discretion determine, the sum certified by the Trustees as being the amount which would have been deducted from his salary under the principal scheme between 1st April 1993 and the first date thereafter when a deduction from his salary under regulation D1 is made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3253/regulation/C2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:43:34.947939+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."
}