{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-17A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-17A.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/17A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17A",
  "heading": "Exceptions",
  "text": "(1) Where the employer considers that the circumstances specified in regulation 5B(1), 5C(1) and (2) or 5D(1) of the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) Regulations 2010 apply in relation to an officer, the employer may choose not to enrol the officer on that person’s automatic enrolment date or automatic re-enrolment date.\n(2) In such a case, the employer is to be treated as having satisfied the duty in section 3(2) or 5(2) of the Pensions Act 2008.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 17A inserted (21.12.2017) by The Police Pension Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/387), regs. 1(2), 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 17A(1) inserted (1.4.2019) by The Police Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/68), regs. 1(2), 52"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/142/regulation/17A",
    "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."
}