{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-civil-servants-and-others-pensions-regulations-2014/schedule-2/paragraph-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-civil-servants-and-others-pensions-regulations-2014/schedule-2/paragraph-19.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": "schedule/2/paragraph/19",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Tapered protection members of the PCSPS",
  "text": "(1) A person (P) to whom any of paragraphs 22 to 27 applies is a tapered protection member of the PCSPS.\n(2) P ceases to be a tapered protection member of the PCSPS on whichever of the following days occurs first—\n(a) P’s tapered protection closing date; or\n(b) the day on which P ceases to be in pensionable service under the PCSPS, unless sub-paragraph (3) or sub-paragraph (4) applies.\n(3) This sub-paragraph applies if—\n(a) Before P’s transition date P returns to service which is pensionable under the PCSPS from service which is pensionable under an existing scheme or an existing public body pension scheme; and\n(b) P would have been a protected member of that existing scheme or existing public body pension scheme had P re-entered service which is pensionable under that scheme on the date P returns to service which is pensionable under the PCSPS.\n(4) This sub-paragraph applies if—\n(a) Before P’s transition date P returns to service which is pensionable under the PCSPS otherwise than from service which is pensionable under an existing scheme or an existing public body pension scheme; and\n(b) P returns to service which is pensionable under the PCSPS after a gap in service not exceeding 5 years.\n(5) In this paragraph—\n“exception” means–\n(a)in relation to an existing scheme, an exception under section 18(5) of the Act provided for in scheme regulations in relation to that scheme;\n(b)in relation to an existing public body pension scheme, an exception under section 31(4) of the Act provided for by the public authority responsible for that scheme; and\n(6) “protected member” of an existing scheme or an existing public body scheme means a person in respect of whom an exception applies for the purposes of that scheme.\n(7) For the purpose of paragraph (4)(b), after the scheme closing date P is not on a gap in service while P is in pensionable public service.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 19(5)(a) substituted (1.4.2015) by The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Consequential and Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/372), regs. 1(2), 16(12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 19 in force at 15.8.2014, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1964/schedule/2/paragraph/19",
    "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."
}