{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-civil-servants-and-others-pensions-regulations-2014/regulation-65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-civil-servants-and-others-pensions-regulations-2014/regulation-65.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/65",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Partial retirement option notice",
  "text": "(1) A partial retirement option may only be exercised—\n(a) by notice to the scheme manager in a form required by the scheme manager (“option notice”); and\n(b) in the 3 months after P’s pensionable earnings are reduced, on a date agreed by the member and the scheme manager.\n(2) An option notice must specify—\n(a) whether P claims payment of—\n(i) the whole of P’s accrued pensions; or\n(ii) part only of P’s accrued pensions; and\n(b) if P claims payment of part only–\n(i) the descriptions of accrued pension for which payment is claimed; and\n(ii) the proportion of each description of accrued pension for which payment is claimed (“option proportion”), which must comply with regulation 66.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 65 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/65",
    "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."
}