{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-civil-servants-and-others-pensions-regulations-2014/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-civil-servants-and-others-pensions-regulations-2014/regulation-24.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1964",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-civil-servants-and-others-pensions-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Opting out before the end of one month",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies if a person (P) opts out of this scheme in relation to a continuous period of service in scheme employment—\n(a) before the end of one month after P’s first day of a continuous period of service in scheme employment (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 continuous period of service in scheme employment.\n(3) If paragraph (1)(b) applies, P is taken not to have been in pensionable service under this scheme in relation to that period of service 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": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 24 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1964/regulation/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:08:32.082597+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."
}