{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/regulation-31.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/445",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "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); or\n(b) before the end of one month 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(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": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/445/regulation/31",
    "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."
}