{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-civil-servants-and-others-pensions-regulations-2014/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-civil-servants-and-others-pensions-regulations-2014/schedule-2/paragraph-5.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/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Meaning of “active member of an existing scheme”",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of Parts 2 and 3 of this Schedule, a person (P) is an active member of an existing scheme (other than the PCSPS) on a given date if on that date—\n(a) P is in pensionable service under that scheme; or\n(b) P is on a gap in service not exceeding 5 years.\n(2) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (1)(b), after the closing date for the existing scheme P is not on a gap in service while P is in pensionable public service.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (2), “the closing date for the existing scheme” means the date referred to in section 18(4)(a) or (b) of the Act, as applicable.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5 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/5",
    "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."
}