{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-regulations-2014/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-regulations-2014/regulation-31.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/512",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Pension Scheme Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Opting out of this scheme before automatic enrolment date",
  "text": "(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.\n(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”).\n(3) An opt-out notice has effect—\n(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\n(b) otherwise, from the first day of the month after the month in which the scheme manager receives the opt-out notice.\n(4) An opt-out notice ceases to have effect from the earliest of—\n(a) the date on which a subsequent opt-in notice has effect;\n(b) P's automatic enrolment date for that employment; and\n(c) if P is subject to a Fair Deal transfer in relation to service in that employment, the Fair Deal transfer date.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 31(4) substituted (1.4.2015) by The Teachers Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2652), regs. 1, 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/512/regulation/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:24:37.807691+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."
}