{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/113",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Eligible Service",
  "text": "(1) A member of the police service—\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 the police service who falls within regulation 4(1)(a) and 4(1)(b) remains in eligible service during a career break.\n(4) For the purpose of these Regulations, a member of the police service 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": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 18(3) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 2(c) of the amending Rule) by The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/38), regs. 2, 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 18(4) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 2(c) of the amending Rule) by The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/38), regs. 2, 6(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "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/nisr/2015/113/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:04.118896+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."
}