{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/445",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Eligible service",
  "text": "(1) A member of a police force in England and Wales—\n(a) is in eligible service; and\n(b) is eligible to be an active member of this scheme.\n(2) While a person is a protected member of the existing police pension scheme, the person—\n(a) is not in eligible service; and\n(b) is not eligible to be an active member of this scheme.\n(3) For the purpose of these Regulations, a member of a police force remains in eligible service during—\n(a) a career break; and\n(b) any other period of unpaid leave—\n(i) that does not exceed 5 years; and\n(ii) during which the employment relationship continues .\n(4) For the purpose of these Regulations, a member of a police force remains in eligible service during a period of permanent service unless during that period of permanent service P is in pensionable service in—\n(a) an existing scheme that relates to the armed forces or another scheme under section 1 of the Act that relates to the armed forces; or\n(b) any other occupational pension scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "See regulation 22 for periods of unpaid leave during which the employment relationship continues."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "See section 18(2) of the Act for the meaning of “existing scheme”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/445/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:45:30.636565+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."
}