{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2015/142",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Chapter",
  "text": "In this Chapter—\n“automatic enrolment date” has the meaning given by section 3(7) of the Pensions Act 2008;\n“automatic re-enrolment date”, in relation to a person in eligible service, means a date determined under regulation 12 of the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) Regulations 2010;\n“continuous period of eligible service” means a period of eligible service disregarding any period not exceeding 5 years in which the person is not in eligible service; and\n“first day of eligible service” means the first day of a continuous period of eligible service.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16 inserted (21.12.2017) by The Police Pension Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/387), regs. 1(2), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/772; regulation 12 was amended by S.I. 2012/215."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See Chapter 1 of this Part. For the purpose of these Regulations, a member of the police force on a period of unpaid leave remains in eligible service."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/142/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:30:03.361596+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."
}