Regulation 31 Opting out of this scheme before automatic enrolment date

England and Wales

(1)

A person (P) opts out of this scheme in relation to service in an eligible employment if P opts not to be an active member of this scheme in relation to that service.

(2)

P may only exercise the option by written notice to the scheme manager in a form required by the scheme manager (“opt-out notice”).

(3)

An opt-out notice has effect—

(a)

if the scheme manager receives the opt-out notice no later than 3 months after P enters the employment, from the first day of the employment; or

(b)

otherwise, from the first day of the month after the month in which the scheme manager receives the opt-out notice.

(4)

An opt-out notice ceases to have effect from the F1earliest of—

(a)

the date on which a subsequent opt-in notice has effect;

(b)

P's automatic enrolment date for that employment; and

(c)

if P is subject to a Fair Deal transfer in relation to service in that employment, the Fair Deal transfer date.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Word in reg. 31(4) substituted (1.4.2015) by The Teachers Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2652), regs. 1, 8