{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-22.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/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Opting out before the end of the initial period of eligible service",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies if a person (P) opts out of this scheme in relation to eligible service—\n(a) before the end of 3 months after P’s first day of eligible service (or within any longer period the scheme manager considers appropriate); ...\n(aa) before the end of 3 months after the automatic enrolment date (or within any longer period the scheme manager considers appropriate); or\n(b) before the end of 3 months after the automatic re-enrolment date (or within any longer period the scheme manager considers appropriate).\n(2) If paragraph (1)(a) applies, P is taken never to have been in pensionable service under this scheme in relation to that eligible service.\n(2A) If paragraph (1)(aa) applies, P is taken not to have been in pensionable service under this scheme.\n(3) If paragraph (1)(b) applies, P is taken not to have been in pensionable service under this scheme during the period referred to in paragraph (1)(b).\n(4) This regulation does not require the scheme manager to pay P any additional amount which becomes payable by P in respect of national insurance contributions because P has not after all been an active member of this scheme during any period.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 22(1)(a) revoked (21.12.2017) by The Police Pension Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/387), regs. 1(2), 8(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 22(1)(aa) inserted (21.12.2017) by The Police Pension Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/387), regs. 1(2), 8(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 22(2A) inserted (21.12.2017) by The Police Pension Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/387), regs. 1(2), 8(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 22 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/142/regulation/22",
    "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."
}