{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-C4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-C4.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/C4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "C4",
  "heading": "Right to opt out for Members of the House of Commons",
  "text": "(1) A participating Member who does not fall within subparagraphs (a) or (b) of regulation C1 may exercise an option in writing under this regulation not to be a participant in the principal scheme.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3) below, the effective opt-out date in respect of a Member is whatever date the Trustees shall determine to be the earliest practicable date after that on which they receive from him written notice of the exercise of the option.\n(3) If the Trustees receive the written notice not more than three months after the date of a General Election or by-election at which the person was elected for the first time to membership of the House of Commons, the effective opt-out date is the date of that election and any contributions deducted from him since that election under regulation D1 and, if he is an office holder, under regulation D2, shall be repaid to him.\n(4) A Member of the House of Commons who has exercised his right under paragraph (1) above to opt out of the principal scheme is referred to in these Regulations as “an opted-out Member”.",
  "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/C4",
    "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."
}