{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/445",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Meaning of “active member” of an existing scheme",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies in relation to an existing scheme other than the 1987 scheme or the 2006 scheme (“the existing scheme”).\n(2) For the purpose of this Schedule, a transition member (T) is an active member of the existing scheme on a given date if on that date—\n(a) T is in pensionable service under that scheme; or\n(b) T is on a gap in pensionable service not exceeding 5 years.\n(3) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (2)(b), T is not on a gap in pensionable service after the scheme closing date while T is in pensionable service under—\n(a) an existing scheme;\n(b) the 1988 NI police pension scheme;\n(c) the 2009 NI police pension scheme;\n(d) another scheme under section 1 of the Act providing for payment of retirement pensions; or\n(e) the 2015 NI police pension scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/445/schedule/4/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}